Theo van Gogh

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Theo van Gogh

Born July 23, 1957 · Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Died November 2, 2004 · aged 47

Theodoor (Theo) van Gogh (The Hague, July 23, 1957 – Amsterdam, November 2, 2004) was a Dutch director, actor, screenwriter, columnist, programme maker, and television presenter.

Known For

The NorthernersThe Northerners · 1992
The Northerners
6.91992
MovieComedyDrama
A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
CharleyCharley · 1986
Charley
7.51986
MovieDrama
Because of her incestuous past Charley (Marie Kooiman) refuses to talk. Together with her friend she invites men to her house, seduces and poisons them and removes their male parts. Then it is revealed that she can talk after all.
Baby BlueBaby Blue · 2001
Baby Blue
6.52001
MovieThriller
A young Dutch couple gets new English neighbors next-door to their modern home. Of course, everyone is not who they seem.
De PijnbankDe Pijnbank · 1998
De Pijnbank
7.51998
MovieDrama
The new bank manager tries to get rid of two difficult bank employees by playing them off against each other in a devious way. Looking for weaknesses, acquired privileges are withdrawn and one employee is used to catch the other committing fraud. The pressure continues to mount. Then a former customer is brought in, a man bent on revenge who still hasn't gotten over a bankruptcy from the distant past.
TadzioTadzio · 1991
Tadzio
1991
MovieMystery
Overstimulated by flamboyant props and distracted by extravagant queens pacing up and down the rooms and corridors, one easily forgets the 18th-century country house serving as the backdrop in Tadzio. Yet this imposing bourgeois mansion was the starting point of it all, as well as the only constraint the directing duo of the short film had to consider. An eminent Dutch cultural critic, Els Hoek, challenged several artists to feature this particular place in an audiovisual artwork. She provided them with a generous budget and left them to do the rest. Three films emerged from her idea – Tadzio among them.
Visions of EuropeVisions of Europe · 2004
Visions of Europe
5.32004
MovieDocumentaryComedy
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Blind DateBlind Date · 1996
Blind Date
10.01996
MovieDramaRomance
A bartender watches with amusement as two strangers meet and duel verbally in his bar. Katya, a former dancer, is trying to forget the death of her young daughter. Pom, a comedian known for his verbal thrust and parry, tries to charm, shock and disgust his date in turn.
Eenmotorige MugEenmotorige Mug · 2004
Eenmotorige Mug
2004
MovieDocumentary
In the early spring of 1997, Theo van Gogh conducted a series of interviews with Willem Oltmans, the man who at the time loudly proclaimed that he had been obstructed by the State of the Netherlands for more than forty years—in particular Foreign Minister Luns, who called Willem Oltmans "the single-engine mosquito." For years, his lament was barely heard in the Netherlands. But around the mid-nineties, a different wind seemed to be blowing, and Oltmans gained an increasingly wider audience. For it turned out he was right; according to hundreds of secret coded telegrams, he had been obstructed for years in an extremely bizarre manner.

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