George Groot

Television adaptation of the theater performance of the same name by the Dutch Ruut Weissman and George Groot. The Dutch cabaret artists Jenny Arean, Frits Lambrechts, Lucretia van der Vloot and Kasper van Kooten revive the vanished Jewish entertainment in Amsterdam. Recorded in the Tip Top theater café of the Academie van de Kleinkunst in Amsterdam, which is on the same spot where the Tip Top Theater used to be.

Cardiac surgeon Monqiue has centered her life around her work. When extraverted gay artist Max moves in next door they develop a friendship which makes her realise there is more to life than work.

Television registration of the theatreprogram of the Dutch singers and cabaret artists Jenny Arean and (swami) George Groot. Recorded in De Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam.

Hansje, a ten-year-old boy, is home alone because his parents have to work during Christmas. His mother is an actress in a Christmas play and his father is a conductor of a Christmas concert. Hansje himself has a bad cold and spends the day making drawings until he discovers a small Christmas angel in the Christmas tree. The angel is looking for Pleasure on earth. To explain what Pleasure is, the Christmas angel takes Hansje with him, floating through the air, in the drawings that Hansje made of his hometown. They visit the Christmas play where his mother will perform, his school friend Geesje, a girl whose rabbit will be on the Christmas menu and some girls who go on a holiday to escape the cold. They also see old Mr. Biggelaar, who walks lonely through the city.

Registration of the theatreprogram by the Dutch singer and cabaret artist Jenny Arean. In this program from 2000 she looks back on her 40-year career. She sings songs by lyricist such as Jan Boerstoel, Jurrian van Dongen, George Groot, Robert Long, Ischa Meijer, Annie M.G. Schmidt, Willem Wilmink and Ivo de Wijs.

In the last theater show (1981) of the Dutch cabaret company Don Quishocking, the internal dispute is central. When George Groot returns from Pune, it appears that he has joined the Bhagwan movement. All group members deal with it in their own way, but it seems inevitable that the group members have grown apart.

A documentary about the life and work of the Dutch poet and lyricist Willem Wilmink (1936-2003).