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Harry Mulisch

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Harry Mulisch

Born July 29, 1927 · Haarlem, Netherlands

Died October 30, 2010 · aged 83

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (1927–2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into over thirty languages. Along with Willem Frederik Hermans and Gerard Reve, Mulisch is considered one of the "Great Three" (De Grote Drie) of Dutch postwar literature. His novel The Assault (1982) was adapted into a fi…

Known For

The Discovery of HeavenThe Discovery of Heaven · 2001
The Discovery of Heaven
★ 6.62001
MovieDramaFantasy
Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.
The AssaultThe Assault · 1986
The Assault
★ 6.81986
MovieWarDrama
At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.
The RoomThe Room · 2001
The Room
★ 7.22001
MovieDrama
A man explains how he was obsessed when he was younger by a mysterious room and an extraordinary rarefied piano music that drifted through its open window during the night. Forty years later, returning to his home town after having spent most of his life abroad, in "a bunch of different places", he asks one of his friends to rent a room for him. As chance would have it, it turns out to be the same room which attracted him when he was a young man. What drew him again to this room?
Volk en vaderliefdeVolk en vaderliefde · 1976
Volk en vaderliefde
1976
MovieTV MovieDrama
Otanes is certain that Smerdis, King of Persia is an impostor. He gathers together a group of people to stage a coup, only to face the question of which one of them will be worthy to take the throne.
Twice a WomanTwice a Woman · 1979
Twice a Woman
★ 4.31979
MovieDramaRomance
When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationship with the girl.
Harry Mulisch and The WhimHarry Mulisch and The Whim · 2008
Harry Mulisch and The Whim
★ 5.52008
MovieDocumentary
Eminent Dutch writer Harry Mulisch reflects on the past and the future—the beginning and the end—and revisits his birthplace, his parents, the house of his earliest memories, and the home where he wrote his first story. A film about death, dachshunds, a girl in a closet, stars, and the remarkable body of work that stands like a monument in his Amsterdam study.
Last CallLast Call · 1995
Last Call
★ 5.01995
MovieDrama
Old entertainer gets a last chance to play a serious role.

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