Sophie de Vries-de Boer

An advertising film where posters are presented about the festival held on 9 July at the stadium in Amsterdam.

Fisherman’s widow Kniertje urges her two younger sons to set sail on the ‘Op hoop van zegen’, a heavily insured floating wreck which duly goes down in a storm. Kniertje is left behind, alone and lonely. Based on Herman Heijermans’ socialist-inspired Dutch theatre classic.