Writing

Ivo Michiels

Known for

Writing

Credits

5 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Woman Between Wolf and Dog poster
5.6

Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things, and goes off to fight for them on the Eastern Front. Soon afterward, a resistance fighter is stranded on her doorway, and she hides him. The two of them fall in love, and the conflicts and joys of this relationship cause Lieve continued grief well after the end of the war.

Woman Between Wolf and Dog

1979

Exit 7 poster
4.0

A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her to Rhodes. His psycho-moralistic angst is presented in a series of flashbacks when the hijack of his airplane forces him to take stock of his life.

Exit 7

1978

Seagulls Die in the Harbour poster
7.0

A pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wanderings of a tormented man through the cosmopolitan port city of Antwerp. The only people to show him understanding are an orphan and two disillusioned women.

Seagulls Die in the Harbour

1955

Seagulls Die in the Harbour poster
7.0

A pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wanderings of a tormented man through the cosmopolitan port city of Antwerp. The only people to show him understanding are an orphan and two disillusioned women.

Seagulls Die in the Harbour

1955

Met Dieric Bouts poster
7.0

A filmed essay about the painter Bouts.

Met Dieric Bouts

1975