Portrait of Olivia de Havilland

Portrait of Olivia de Havilland

2019 · 25 min · Documentary

Jules Deelder turned 75 on 24 November 2019 and died less than a month later. Shortly before his death, 26 other unique characters from Rotterdam paid homage to him by reading part of his 'Portret van Olivia de Havilland': the epic 891 line poem in which Deelder reminisced about the 1950s.

Directed by Sonia Herman Dolz

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