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7.5This series by Jos Gevers and Jeroom Verten is set in 1958 and revolves around the friendship between the wealthy insurance broker Sander Slisse and the simple Cesar. Other characters are Slisse's wife Melanie, his sons Rik and Jan, his daughter Tinneke and the eternal factor who always comes begging for a drop of gin. Joanna Geldof also contributed to this series. The sitcom was interpreted in Antwerp. The series was also adapted into a play, in which other actors took on the roles.
Slisse & Cesar
1977
10.0Around 1850 Baas Gansendonck who has an inn looks down on the farmers. He wants his daughter Lisa to marry the baron of the village. But she is in love with Karel, the son of a simple brewer.
Baas Gansendonck
1945
5.3The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.
Mira
1971
6.7A married schoolteacher in Flanders develops an obsessive love for one of his students. After moving away to escape his feelings, a disturbing encounter with death and an unexpected reunion begin to unravel his grip on reality.
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
1966
6.3Uplifting and intimate look at the last days of an elderly cancer victim. The film is even more relevant as it was written specifically for the lead actress, Sheila Florance, who was in fact dying of cancer as she created what is essentially a self-portrait.
A Woman's Tale
1991
May 1940, a mother is on the run with her two little girls. Due to a lack of gasoline she can't go far and harbours her children near a Lourdes grotto.
The Girl and the Madonna
1958
Film credits
1970s · 3 titles
5.3The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.
Mira
1971
Short film.
De spoken van de Torenburcht
1977
Around 1860 in the Kempen region. Baas Gansendonck, the landlord of a village inn, feels far superior to the farmers and imagines himself to be of noble birth. His daughter Liza has always remained simple, but suddenly he finds her fiancé Karel, the brewer's son, beneath her. Gansendonck tries to marry his daughter to the baron, but after a fight to save Liza's honor, Karel ends up in prison. Meanwhile, Liza wastes away with grief.
Baas Gansendonck
1974
1960s · 2 titles
6.7A married schoolteacher in Flanders develops an obsessive love for one of his students. After moving away to escape his feelings, a disturbing encounter with death and an unexpected reunion begin to unravel his grip on reality.
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
1966
6.5Cyriel Buysse depicts the downfall of a small East Flanders farmer and his household, at the turn of the century, in a time commonly called la belle époque, which was only nice for the ruling upper crust of chateau lords and their friends.
The Family Van Paemel
1963