Acting

Kees Brusse

Born February 26, 1925 · Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Died December 9, 2013 · aged 88

Kees Brusse (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkeːz ˈbrʏsə]; 26 February 1925 – 9 December 2013) was a Dutch actor, film director and screenwriter. A self-taught actor, he was remarkable for his natural acting style at a time when more theatrical performances were the norm in The Netherlands. One of the first Dutch actors who managed to combine a stage and film career with a career on TV, radio and in commer…

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Mysteries

Mysteries · 1978

MovieMysteryDrama

In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.

Blue Movie

Blue Movie · 1971

25-year-old Michael has been released from prison after a five-year sentence. He moves into a big apartment block, filled with young women who gladly have sex with him.

Jenny

MovieRomanceDrama

The girls of competitive rowing club Nereus are hoping to win the women’s eight. One of them, Jenny, falls for an art dealer and becomes pregnant. Her friends at the club, her coach and her father all pitch in to help. The first Dutch feature length colour film.

Red Sien

Red Sien · 1975

MovieComedyRomance

After her mother -- a prostitute -- is murdered by her father, Sien is raised by her grandparents. Instead of a bourgeois life with grocer's son Gerrit van Buren, she chooses for an adventurous life with toutman Jan Meier. She follows him and becomes a revue artist in an Amsterdam cabaret, until her father comes to see her...

Cornelis van Doorn is the CEO of VD, a meat factory as well as a developer of contraceptives. Cornelis is the patriarch of the Van Doorn family: a decadent bunch of loose morals who only lust for money and power. When the man is thinking about retiring, he has to find the right heir to take over the family business.

Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood

Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood · 1936

Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood

Merijntje Gijzen is a small boy growing up in Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands. One day, out on one of his walks, he meets infamous poacher 'De Kruik,' and the two become friends. De Kruik is in love with Janekee but she is more interested in the new village policeman.

Fair in the Rain

Fair in the Rain · 1962

Fair in the Rain

MovieCrimeThriller

After being released from prison a career criminal wants to start a new life. To finance this new life he decides to rob a small-town bank during a funfair. Meanwhile, he's trying to get rid of a women who can tie him to a previous crime.

Ciske the Rat

Ciske the Rat · 1955

“Ciske de Rat” belongs to the Dickensean “little man’s hard life” model and tells a deceptively simple story about a boy in modern Netherlands. Persecution, loneliness, adults’ hostility, fear, mixture of obstinacy and tenderness, and even an imprisonment. Excellent camera movement and delicate portraying of Ciske’s fragile soul put this film out of merely historical context and ensure its place in the history of great cinema.

Filmography

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Mysteries

Mysteries · 1978

MovieMysteryDrama

In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.

Dr. Stenersen

Blue Movie

Blue Movie · 1971

25-year-old Michael has been released from prison after a five-year sentence. He moves into a big apartment block, filled with young women who gladly have sex with him.

Professor Bernard Cohn, zoöloog

Jenny

MovieRomanceDrama

The girls of competitive rowing club Nereus are hoping to win the women’s eight. One of them, Jenny, falls for an art dealer and becomes pregnant. Her friends at the club, her coach and her father all pitch in to help. The first Dutch feature length colour film.

Dr. Henk Ebeling

Red Sien

Red Sien · 1975

MovieComedyRomance

After her mother -- a prostitute -- is murdered by her father, Sien is raised by her grandparents. Instead of a bourgeois life with grocer's son Gerrit van Buren, she chooses for an adventurous life with toutman Jan Meier. She follows him and becomes a revue artist in an Amsterdam cabaret, until her father comes to see her...

Ko Breman

Cornelis van Doorn is the CEO of VD, a meat factory as well as a developer of contraceptives. Cornelis is the patriarch of the Van Doorn family: a decadent bunch of loose morals who only lust for money and power. When the man is thinking about retiring, he has to find the right heir to take over the family business.

Cornelis "Cor" van Doorn

Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood

Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood · 1936

Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood

Merijntje Gijzen is a small boy growing up in Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands. One day, out on one of his walks, he meets infamous poacher 'De Kruik,' and the two become friends. De Kruik is in love with Janekee but she is more interested in the new village policeman.

Arjaan Gijzen

Fair in the Rain

Fair in the Rain · 1962

Fair in the Rain

MovieCrimeThriller

After being released from prison a career criminal wants to start a new life. To finance this new life he decides to rob a small-town bank during a funfair. Meanwhile, he's trying to get rid of a women who can tie him to a previous crime.

Director

Ciske the Rat

Ciske the Rat · 1955

“Ciske de Rat” belongs to the Dickensean “little man’s hard life” model and tells a deceptively simple story about a boy in modern Netherlands. Persecution, loneliness, adults’ hostility, fear, mixture of obstinacy and tenderness, and even an imprisonment. Excellent camera movement and delicate portraying of Ciske’s fragile soul put this film out of merely historical context and ensure its place in the history of great cinema.

Onderwijzer Bruis

Mr. Slotter's Jubilee

Mr. Slotter's Jubilee · 1979

Mr. Slotter's Jubilee

Hein Slotter, unpopular director of a pram factory, reluctantly agrees to celebrate his 25th anniversary. His only wish is that his successor and mentor, Slieps, gives a speech. Unfortunately Slieps is quite senile and only occasionally has a bright moment. Meanwhile, the party committee learns of a rumor concerning Slotter's younger days and plans to embarrass him during this festive occasion.

Hein Slotter

People of Tomorrow

People of Tomorrow · 1964

People of Tomorrow

MovieDocumentary

Young Dutch people talk frankly to director Kees Brusse about love, faith, sex and society.

Director

Het Grote Gebeuren

Het Grote Gebeuren · 1975

Het Grote Gebeuren

MovieFantasyAnimation

Het grote gebeuren (The big happening) is a Dutch movie about the day of judgement in the small village of Rijssen.

Verteller

Kleren maken de man

Kleren maken de man · 1957

Kleren maken de man

A secret document, a stolen dress suit, two dimwitted crooks, the love of a man for a woman. It all results in a roller coaster ride for a young insurance agent.

Hans

Van der Valk and the Rich

Van der Valk and the Rich · 1973

Van der Valk and the Rich

MovieCrimeTV Movie

Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager. When he gets to know his woman, he is fascinated by the thought of running away with her.

The Manneken Pis Case

The Manneken Pis Case · 1960

The Manneken Pis Case

MovieComedyRomance

Kamiel steals the famous Brussels statue of Manneken Pis to impress his girlfriend Denise, the daughter of the man who is supposed to guard it. The Belgians, however, wrongly accuse the Dutch of having stolen their statue and hit back by stealing the statue of Hansje Brink.

Sus

The Umbrella

The Umbrella · 1956

A short film directed by Kees Brusse.

Director

Jonny & Jessy

Jonny & Jessy · 1972

Jonny loves Jessy, but he likes his car even more and therefore Jessy breaks up with him.

Major Ecklund

National Parks.... Necessity

National Parks.... Necessity · 1978

National Parks.... Necessity

MovieDocumentary

In this film Bert Haanstra shows how important the formation of national parks is for the protection of nature.

Voice-over

Dr. Pulder Sows Poppies

Dr. Pulder Sows Poppies · 1975

Dr. Pulder Sows Poppies

MovieDramaThriller

A small town doctor gets a visit from a former study-friend. He doesn't know this former surgeon has become a junkie that wants to steal his morphine.

Dr. Pulder

The World of Simon Carmiggelt

The World of Simon Carmiggelt · 1983

The World of Simon Carmiggelt

Eight newspaper-columns by Dutch writer Simon Carmiggelt were turned into a film in honor of his 70st birthday.

Man op bankje

Man, vrouw, hondje

Man, vrouw, hondje · 1999

Man, vrouw, hondje

When Louise (70) and Max (72) meet, it is love at first sight: they abandon their sleepy lives and travel to the South of France, where they become the terrors of the 'Route du Soleil'. They rip off naïve tourists with their act as a sad old couple: a second youth that goes further than their wildest dreams. Based on a true story.

Max de Haas

The Silent Raid

The Silent Raid · 1962

The Silent Raid

MovieWarHistory

In 1944 Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, a band of Dutch resistance fighters plot to covertly rescue dozens of compatriots from the local Nazi prison.

Producer

Dakota

MovieDramaAdventure

A Dutch pilot with a real passion for flying risks everything to keep his plane in the air.

Dick de Boer

Tasten in het duister

Tasten in het duister · 1996

Tasten in het duister

Karel ten Have

Menschen von Morgen - Geständnisse vor der Kamera

Menschen von Morgen - Geständnisse vor der Kamera · 1966

Menschen von Morgen - Geständnisse vor der Kamera

MovieDocumentary

Several young German people are interviewed about their lives, their hopes and their origins. A documentary by Kees Brusse, who also directed the original Dutch version of this film two years before.

Director

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime · 1970

Scene of the Crime

SeriesDramaCrime

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Kornmann

Medisch Centrum West

Medisch Centrum West · 1988

Medisch Centrum West

Willem Tol

The Legacy

The Legacy · 2004

Before the old Andreas Heydecoper wants to commit suicide, he calls all his children and grandchildren to his home in Curaçao. He wants to see his family for the last time. When Andreas has died, his children and grandchildren burn him. But they find out that Andreas wasn't loved by everyone... And when they visit the notary to get their part of the heritage, the notary says they can't. Before they will get the heritage, Andreas's will says they have to find the 'Vuurmeisje'.

Maigret

Maigret · 1964

SeriesMysteryDrama

Maigret

Dagboek van een herdershond

Dagboek van een herdershond · 1978

Dagboek van een herdershond

In this period drama series, the young, unexperienced Catholic priest Erik Odekerke -who keeps a diary, and is once described as a (pastoral) 'sheperd dog', gets his first assignment, as kapelaan -literally 'chaplain', but in Dutch still in assistant to the parish's curate- in a mining town in Dutch Limburg.

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