Leon de Winter

Writing

Leon de Winter

Born February 24, 1954 · ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (age 72)

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Known For

The Hollywood SignThe Hollywood Sign · 2002
The Hollywood Sign
4.62002
MovieActionComedy
Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
FrontierFrontier · 1984
Frontier
9.01984
MovieThrillerDrama
Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are mixed-up in time and in location, thereby dashing any hope of following the story. A journalist goes to a southern European country to interview a well-known terrorist who has refused to stop his activities even though the revolution he fought for ended successfully five years earlier. Questions are raised about adopting violence as a way of life without at first realizing it and about the seeming impossibility of raising the consciousness of backwater cultures. Perhaps because of the way the story has been filleted into fragments, characters like the journalist and terrorist do not have enough continuous screen time to build up their individuality, a second factor that makes it difficult to become involved in the drama.
De afstandDe afstand · 1981
De afstand
8.01981
MovieDrama
A young sailor learns that his friend has died of a heroin overdose. He watches the 8mm films he has made of his friend and discovers that he keeps the world at a distance from behind his camera.
A Perfect ManA Perfect Man · 2013
A Perfect Man
4.02013
MovieDrama
A philandering husband unknowingly falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.
Looking for EileenLooking for Eileen · 1987
Looking for Eileen
6.51987
MovieDramaRomance
After his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Only after months does he return to a more or less normal life and even then he only works in his wife's bookstore. A year later Eileen walks in the store, a girl from Northern Ireland with her baby in her arms. When Philip sees her, he's dumbfounded, for she's the spitting image of his dead wife. Obsessed with her, he goes and tries to find her again, but he soon finds out that he's not the only one who's looking for Eileen.
Junkie's SorrowJunkie's Sorrow · 1979
Junkie's Sorrow
1979
MovieDocumentary
It tells the life story of the Flemish poet Jotie 't Hooft, a notorious drug user who made several suicide attempts and died in 1977 at the age of 21.
BastilleBastille · 1984
Bastille
8.01984
MovieDrama
Born in Amsterdam in 1943, Paul, a Jewish man, attempts to locate his twin brother (or perhaps his alter ego), who was abducted forty years ago and sent to a Nazi concentration camp. As he searches, he becomes increasingly immersed in the story of his life, as well as in an analysis of post-war Jewish identity.
Pauw & WittemanPauw & Witteman · 2006
Pauw & Witteman
5.02006
Series
Pauw & Witteman is a Dutch late-night talk show, hosted by Jeroen Pauw en Paul Witteman. It is generally focused on current affairs and politics. It is broadcast every weekday at 11 pm on Nederland 1. It is produced by Dutch public broadcasters NPS and VARA. During summer Pauw & Witteman are replaced by Knevel & Van de Brink, a talk show hosted by Andries Knevel and Thijs van den Brink, produced by the dutch evangelical broadcasting company, the EO.

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FrontierFrontier · 1984
Frontier
9.01984
MovieThrillerDrama
Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are mixed-up in time and in location, thereby dashing any hope of following the story. A journalist goes to a southern European country to interview a well-known terrorist who has refused to stop his activities even though the revolution he fought for ended successfully five years earlier. Questions are raised about adopting violence as a way of life without at first realizing it and about the seeming impossibility of raising the consciousness of backwater cultures. Perhaps because of the way the story has been filleted into fragments, characters like the journalist and terrorist do not have enough continuous screen time to build up their individuality, a second factor that makes it difficult to become involved in the drama.

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