Writing

Rolf Orthel

Known for

Writing

Credits

9 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

No artwork available
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No synopsis available yet.

Laagland

1996

Mindshadows poster
7.0

A Dutch couple is confronted with the husband's rapid onset of senility during a snowy winter in North Eastern Canada.

Mindshadows

1988

Donna: Women in Revolt poster
7.0

The story of those Italian women who, for eighty years, have fought against power in all its forms.

Donna: Women in Revolt

1980

The White Umbrella poster
NR

Two women are dissatisfied with their way of life and work. They also realize that their resistance to the frightening political and military developments in Europe has come to nothing. In seemingly different ways, they try to change their relationship with the outside world. They watch fragments of films by Resnais and Godard and even want to make their own film.

The White Umbrella

1983

Ik ben geen probleemkind, ik ben een uitdaging poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ik ben geen probleemkind, ik ben een uitdaging

2017

A Silent Traveler poster
6.5

Debuting Iraq-born, Netherlands-based writer/director Ibrahim Selman starts out on docu ground, with a voiceover explaining his objectives and the film’s stand-in location, and recalling Kurdistan before the advent of war. He then shifts into narrative mode, with glimpses of life in a mountain village caught in the conflict between Iraqi military authorities and peshmergas (guerrilla freedom fighters).

A Silent Traveler

1993

A Silent Traveler poster
6.5

Debuting Iraq-born, Netherlands-based writer/director Ibrahim Selman starts out on docu ground, with a voiceover explaining his objectives and the film’s stand-in location, and recalling Kurdistan before the advent of war. He then shifts into narrative mode, with glimpses of life in a mountain village caught in the conflict between Iraqi military authorities and peshmergas (guerrilla freedom fighters).

A Silent Traveler

1993

Shadowland poster
10.0

When Laura was six, her parents got divorced and her father disappeared from her life. The happiness she experienced on her final journey with her father, when he danced with her at a flea market in Brussels, holds a special place in Laura's memory. When Laura finds the shadow puppets her father once bought for her in the attic, these open up a portal to the past for her.

Shadowland

1993

No artwork available
NR

Two very different friends who share an apartment in Amsterdam have reached a dead end in their lives. The arrival of a parcel looks like an opportunity for a change.

The Front Door

1985