Frans Bromet

biography: Frans Bromet (Amsterdam, August 29, 1944) is a Dutch programme maker and cameraman.

Het leven van Gied Jaspars

overview: A six-part series about the life of Gied Jaspars, told to Frans Bromet.

original_name: Het leven van Gied Jaspars

original_language: nl

Met Bromet naar hondencursus

overview: Documentary series by Frans Bromet about the relationship between man and his best friend: the dog.

original_name: Met Bromet naar hondencursus

Rechts in beeld

overview: Frans Bromet seeks out representatives of various right-wing movements, opinion leaders, and parties. He wants to know what their vision of the future Netherlands looks like. What do they stand for, rather than what are they against?

original_name: Rechts in beeld

Het Israël van Heertje en Bromet

overview: Raoul Heertje and Frans Bromet travel to Israel. The country they know well and with which they both feel inextricably linked, partly due to their Jewish background. But also the country that raises questions, irritation, and sometimes anger in them because of the social, political, and religious developments.

original_name: Het Israël van Heertje en Bromet

Uit elkaar

overview: Uit elkaar is a two-part documentary by filmmakers Frans and Silvia Bromet. They followed couples who are forced to live separately after a long marriage. One of them has dementia, and living at home is no longer possible. What do you do then?

original_name: Uit elkaar

De Bibliotheek

overview: Programme maker Frans Bromet visits eight public libraries with camera and microphone and speaks to visitors, staff, and volunteers. The idea that libraries are boring institutions where you only go to borrow books and CDs turns out to be completely outdated. Everyone is welcome in the library, it is a pleasant place to spend time, and not unimportantly: the library is the only public place that is accessible for free all day long. From the homeless person to the millionaire and from the student to the pensioner: the library is a place where the whole of the Netherlands comes together.

original_name: De Bibliotheek

He Frans, He Stef

overview: Frans Bromet and Stef Biemans send each other video letters about the children from their village. Stef lives in Masaya, Nicaraguan, and Frans lives in Ilpendam, North Holland.

original_name: He Frans, He Stef

Gat in de markt

overview: Mortgage advisor Remco Trommel has found the Holy Grail: if you give terminally ill patients an advance on their life insurance, which is only paid out after their death, clients can realize their dream before they die.

original_name: Gat in de markt

Wellness is Booming

overview: Three friends decide to realize their dream: their own wellness center. After all, everyone wants to enjoy themselves these days. But will their optimism and drive withstand the financial crisis?

original_name: Wellness is Booming

Bezem door de wallen

overview:
De Bezem door de Wallen is a triptych about the municipality's approach to tackling crime and decay in Amsterdam's Red Light District. The plan is to close a large number of prostitution windows and coffeeshops in the city center via Project 1012 and to consolidate the remaining ones. In the words of the municipality, these sectors are criminogenic, or susceptible to crime.

Documentary filmmaker Frans Bromet follows window operators, prostitutes, and owners of coffeeshops, gambling halls, and sex theaters.

original_name: Bezem door de wallen

De risicojongens

overview: Jan van der Prijt lost hundreds of thousands of euros on the stock market due to the crisis. He hopes to recoup his losses through investments in land. For Albert van Bekkum, investing is a sport. His accountant says he has a keen sense for prime locations. The first real estate investors in Montenegro are doing good business. But the high returns to be had on the land soon disappear. Vincent and Wladimir believe there is good money to be made in real estate and decide to build a luxury apartment complex on Montenegrin land. Construction begins before the complex is fully financed. It is important that the apartments are sold quickly, otherwise there will be no money to complete the project. However, the credit crisis throws a spanner in the works. Potential investors become wary and put their money into savings accounts.

original_name: De risicojongens

Spookhuis

overview: Lidy sees terrifying apparitions in her cottage. She hears strange noises in the attic and sees chains moving. She has also already been dragged down the attic stairs by someone. Frans Bromet and energy house cleanser Lise come to her aid.

original_name: Spookhuis

Veelbelovend

overview: The young, entrepreneurial brothers Edial and Floris Dekker dream of owning their own internet company and leave for Berlin after their studies to make their dream a reality. 'Startup city' Berlin is a gathering place for ambitious young people and a breeding ground for countless internet startup companies. The brothers launch the website Gidsy, where organizers of small-scale local activities can connect with potential participants. Whether you want a tour of Amsterdam's Red Light District, to search for oysters in the Oosterschelde, or do life drawing in Berlin, you will find it on Gidsy. Edial and Floris soon manage to interest a few investors, including the famous actor Ashton Kutcher, to invest $1.2 million in their fledgling company.

original_name: Veelbelovend

Buren

overview: Buren deals with the phenomenon of neighbor disputes and is presented by Frans Bromet. In the program, neighbors discuss the disagreements they have with each other. Both parties are given equal opportunities to express their dissatisfaction. In some cases, Bromet attempts to resolve the conflict.

original_name: Buren

Indiëstrijders

overview: In this four-part series, Frans Bromet talks to former Dutch East Indies fighters about their experiences during the armed conflict between the Netherlands and Indonesia. 'Boy, in the Indies, keep your head up, there in the land of Emeralds'—with this song, the viewer is confronted in every episode with the portrait of a young Dutch East Indies fighter.

original_name: Indiëstrijders

Wat is nou...

overview: A series of reports by program makers Peter van Ingen and Frans Bromet. They head out together, both armed with a camera; using questions, they attempt to uncover the meaning of concepts that are frequently heard in society but often thought-out. To reinforce their questions, they film each other, exactly as they interview their guests.

original_name: Wat is nou...

Oh god

overview: In this four-part documentary series, Frans Bromet engages in conversation with a wide variety of people about God, heaven, and hell. For example, three eleven-year-old girls, a developmental psychologist, and a professor of philosophy of technology speak about whether life gets better if you believe in God and whether there is still room for them in heaven.

original_name: Oh god

Meeste stemmen gelden

overview: Documentary filmmaker Frans Bromet goes in search of local political life and has chosen Enkhuizen as his subject of study. Over the course of six episodes, he follows a number of politicians from local parties and attempts to expose the political relationships between the parties to the viewer.

original_name: Meeste stemmen gelden

Van goede wil

overview: In this series of five feature-length reports, the theme of 'assistance' takes center stage in the broadest sense of the word. Documentary filmmaker Frans Bromet delves into the lives of care providers and those in need of help at the invitation of various care organizations.

original_name: Van goede wil

Kerk te koop

overview:
Two-part documentary in which filmmaker Frans Bromet follows the events surrounding the functional obsolescence of two churches in the municipality of Weesp.

Due to the PKN merger within the Protestant community, the Maarten Luther Church and the Reformed Church Centre Hogewey are losing their regular churchgoers. What to do with these buildings of devotion and faith?

original_name: Kerk te koop

Slapend rijk

overview:
Two-part documentary in which documentary maker Frans Bromet, a non-investor by principle himself, follows a number of private investors.

Bromet wants to find out what drives private investors at a time when the financial crisis is striking and some are making heavy losses while others are making enormous profits. In addition, he joins several investors on an investment strategy training course for beginners and, later, for advanced investors.

original_name: Slapend rijk

In de familie

overview: We all have them: questions we don't dare ask our dearest family members. Simply because the subject is too sensitive. Or because we think we already know the answer, or are actually afraid of it. This is grist to the mill for program maker and family portraitist Frans Bromet. He speaks extensively with the questioner beforehand and then has them ask the question directly to the family member. Just watch what bubbles up that was never spoken about before.

original_name: In de familie

job: Camera Operator

overview: Documentaries are broadcast every week on Dutch TV Channel NPO 2 under the name 2Doc: inspiring stories of the here and now.

department: Camera

job: Producer

Het leven van Gied Jaspars

job: Cinematography

department: Crew

Stichting woest

overview: In this report series, children who are angry about something taking place or that has happened in their immediate surroundings are given the chance to hold an adult accountable. For example, a number of children speak with a police spokesperson and a mounted riot police officer about the police action on Amsterdam's Museumplein during a demonstration against the war in Iraq.

Nederlands

biography:
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Bromet studeerde aan de Nederlandse Filmacademie in Amsterdam. Tijdens zijn studie richtte hij samen met Jan de Bont, René Daalder, Rem Koolhaas en Kees Meyering de filmgroep 1,2,3 enzovoort op. Ze maakten in 1965 samen de korte film 1,2,3 Rhapsodie, die bestond uit vijf sketches waarin ze om beurten de rol van acteur, cameraman, regisseur en scenarioschrijver voor hun rekening namen.

Begonnen als cameraman van onder andere films als Ciske de Rat en Op hoop van zegen, maakte Bromet later de overstap naar het maken van documentaires waarbij hij vanachter de camera als interviewer fungeert.

Bromets nasale en wat slepende stem en droge opmerkingen zijn zijn handelsmerk.

In 2017 kreeg hij de Ere Zilveren Nipkowschijf voor zijn gehele oeuvre.

title: What Are We Doing?

overview: In 2022, 92% of those affected encountered aggression or violence. Frans Bromet portrays six influences who encounter violence while carrying out their work. The violence with which the actual consequences are, leaves personal physical, especially mental, traces.

title: De grens van Frans Bromet

overview: Documentary filmmaker Frans Bromet is known for his striking portraits of ordinary Dutch people. Now he is the subject himself, but has little desire to rake up matters from his own life.

title: De Noord 20-29

overview: Frans Bromet lives at 'De Noord' number 20 in Ilpendam, North Holland: "An island of tranquility in a noisy world." The houses on the dike were previously inhabited by Ilpendam residents; now, Amsterdammers who fled the city live there. What is the difference between the original and the current residents?

title: Alsof ik Palestina heb gestolen

overview: Criticism of Israel is often labeled as antisemitism, particularly by a segment of the Jewish community. To what extent is this the case? Frans Bromet asks people with differing viewpoints on this complex subject.

title: Legal weed 2

overview: Frans Bromet follows several cannabis growers who have been selected by lottery as the first suppliers of legal cannabis. Sequel to the 2021 documentary 'Legal Weed'. Ten growers have been selected by draw as the first legal cannabis growers for an experiment that would last four years. These are large companies where a lot of money is spent to enable large-scale production of cannabis. But the actual experiment still hasn't been fully rolled out. Only in a few cities is legal cannabis available in coffee shops. The biggest problems that growers and sellers face are supply stocks and the complexity of the track and trace system. Every movement of the weed must be registered. And that is almost impossible with a failing computer system. The future of the experiment remains highly unpredictable four years after its announcement.

title: Een tip van de sluier

overview: To vent his own fears of divorce, Bromet follows a divorced 36-year-old woman, Hiske, a mother of two and working as an educational psychologist, through 'the laboratory of happiness'—the playgrounds of the 'me' era—with his camera. Through the life and experiences of this woman, he wants to discover what leads someone to—and what they hope for—from a divorce. The woman ends up in, among other places, a gay sauna, a group sex event, an institute for dynamic meditation, a maternity ward, and a sperm bank. Hiske professes that she is divorced in order to be able to search for her own possibilities without hindrance and regrets that her children no longer have a father. Frans calls her cruel because she took her husband's children away from him. Moreover, he is reinforced in his conviction that women do not wish to delve into men nearly enough.

title: Here Is Always Somewhere Else

overview: The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the smallest boat ever to cross the Atlantic. As seen through the eyes of fellow emigrant filmmaker René Daalder, the picture becomes a sweeping overview of contemporary art films as well as an epic saga of the transformative powers of the ocean.

title: My new friends from ward three

overview: Frans Bromet ends up in the Reade rehabilitation clinic in Amsterdam after a brain haemorrhage. He soon picks up his camera and films his roommates and healthcare staff. Frans discovers how important intensive guidance is. But the bond with his fellow sufferers is also greater than expected. When he hears of upcoming budget cuts, his concerns grow about the future of the institution and therefore also about the rehabilitation process of the clients.

title: Alles van waarde

overview: Frans Bromet in search of the bad influences of the modern management culture.

title: Muziek op de vlucht

overview: This documentary, made by Frans Bromet and his son and daughter, explores music as an expression of homesickness and despair in the notorious refugee camp known as The Jungle in Calais.

title: Legal weed

overview: Currently, purchasing cannabis is done through 'the back door'. What is sold legally is purchased illegally. The end of 2019 marked the start of a four-year experiment in which cannabis grown under state supervision is legally traded. This should lead to less crime and better quality weed with fewer harmful substances. After a strict selection procedure, ten growers are selected who can supply this government weed. Bromet follows seasoned grower John - who wanted to run his nursery as legally and transparently as possible, but still lost everything after a lawsuit - and the businessmen of plan C who want to grow cannabis for the first time. Bromet also interviews coffee shop owners, politicians involved and both supporters and opponents. A follow-up documentary was made in 2024.

title: Het nieuwe Soestdijk

overview: Documentary about one of the most talked-about Dutch renovations of the moment: the redesign of Soestdijk Palace. The ambitious renovation team, stakeholders, and opponents are followed for several years.

title: Nazaten

overview: Frans Bromet goes in search of his family history and discovers that Hermanus Bromet was a well-known slave trader in Suriname. Should he feel guilty for what his ancestor did? How do you deal with a burdened family past?

title: Leegstaand monument

overview: Documentary about the monument Joods Werkdorp.

title: Zorg-om-zorg

overview: A David versus Goliath documentary. One man versus the Health Care Organizations, fighting for better and affordable health care.

title: Beukbergen, de verbouwing van een woonwagenkamp

overview: Beukbergen is a documentary that paints a comprehensive picture of the large-scale renovation of the Beukbergen trailer park, the largest trailer park in the Netherlands. This documentary, broadcast on NPO 2, offers a unique look behind the scenes of a project that is drastically changing the lives of many people.

original_title: Beukbergen, de verbouwing van een woonwagenkamp

title: Onder de huid

overview: A love tattoo is done in no time, but what do you do with the tattoo when the love is over? Frans Bromet goes in search of the stories behind the tattoo during Valentine's week.

title: Opa, oma, waren jullie bang in de oorlog?

overview: A documentary can be that simple and effective. Three grandfathers and three grandmothers tell their grandchildren about their experiences during the Second World War. When they were still children themselves. One was in hiding and was abused, the other had a wonderful childhood in the Groningen countryside.

original_title: Opa, oma, waren jullie bang in de oorlog?

title: 1, 2, 3, Rhapsody

overview: An iconoclastic first film from the headstrong teenagers of the 1,2,3 Group, who took turns to write, direct, and star in a series of irreverent skits.

title: Hoe word ik joods?

overview: You are Jewish when your mother is too. But when a Jewish mother is absent, it is still possible to become Jewish, namely through the phenomenon of 'coming out'. Frans Bromet portrays various individuals preparing to come out: people who are already Jewish and rabbis—Orthodox and Liberal—who make coming out possible, sometimes against their will.

title: De burgerwacht

overview: In the small village of Noord Rhoon, a group of concerned citizens has established a Citizens' Watch. Frans Bromet investigates. The emergence of citizens' watches is a clear trend in the Netherlands. Hardly a village or neighborhood remains free of the 'WhatsApp Neighborhood Watch' sign. The centralization of government over the past decades has led, particularly in smaller municipalities, to a subtle but visible deterioration of the living environment. The space created by increasingly distant local government is being filled by residents. They organize themselves on social media and, for example, conduct patrols through the neighborhood. But to what extent is such a citizens' watch desirable? How does the local government deal with this? And where does the line lie between civic duty and meddling?

title: Under the spell of the bomb

overview: Documentary about whistleblower Frits Veerman, who in the 1970s exposed the nuclear espionage at Urenco in which his Pakistani colleague Abdul Khan smuggled nuclear data out of the country. He was fired and fought for 40 years for rehabilitation. Frans Bromet examines the moral compass of the headstrong whistleblower in the politically shadowy and high-profile espionage scandal. Bromet wants to understand what underlies years of backroom politics, an intelligence agency that refuses to grant access to the file, and international interests that apparently prevail over the protection of an observant citizen by his government. The fact that the Dutch State takes no responsibility in this matter weighs heavily, literally and figuratively, on Veerman. The threat of a nuclear bomb remains real. Will a potential rehabilitation offer the satisfaction he has been waiting for forty years?

title: Vader in de tuin

overview: Grandpa Koos (89) is a widower and still lives independently, but he is becoming lonely and his health is deteriorating. He does not want to spend his last years in a nursing home. Daughter-in-law Anita suggests that he could come and live with them in the garden. One day, a brand-new, ready-made care home is hoisted into the garden.

title: Verstopt

overview: Eduard van Dijk's home has become uninhabitable. While clearing it out, emotional memories of his father, who died as a resistance fighter in the Natzweiler concentration camp, surface for Eduard. In Verstopt, Bromet follows an old friend of Eduard's: Vera. She helps to make Eduard's house habitable again. During the clearing process, it becomes clear how strongly Eduard is attached to all his belongings: with every book he picks up, he has a special memory. Will Vera succeed in making the house habitable again? And will Eduard manage to part with the items to which he feels so emotionally connected?

title: Leve de organen

overview: In 'Leve deorgaan', Frans Bromet delves into the world of organ donation and the ethical dilemmas involved. What does it actually mean to sign up as an organ donor?

title: Een goede moslima

overview: How do you navigate as a young Islamic woman in a society whose morality seems to be at odds with how you are supposed to behave according to your own Muslim community? And how do you deal with the religious rules of your own community? Yeter Akin and Frans Bromet explore this in 'A Good Muslim Woman'.

title: Man in de knoop

overview: Dutch men commit suicide twice as often as women. Why is that? Filmmaker Frans Bromet investigates, together with journalist Nathan Vos, what is going on with men.

title: De film die nooit afkwam

overview: In the late 1970s, filmmaker Frans Bromet worked on a film about Holocaust survivor and painter Sieg Maandag. The film was intended to answer the question of how one can continue living after a concentration camp.  Sieg Maandag was the little boy in the famous photo in the American magazine LIFE, walking towards his freedom shortly after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The film 'Life’s Picture' was never completed at the time due to a conflict between Bromet and the producer, who envisioned a heroic film about the Second World War, whereas Bromet wanted to keep it small and personal.  Behind the search for answers to the question of why the film failed, a loving monument emerges to a survivor who, despite the misery he endured, managed to create a life in which optimism and inspiration predominated.

title: Taxibotsing

overview: The arrival of the taxi app Uber is causing anger among existing taxi drivers. If the police do not intervene, they take matters into their own hands.  In Taxibotsing, Frans Bromet follows the battle waged by the established taxi world against Uber, a small online program that aims to eventually dominate the Dutch transport market. The battle is being fought on various levels. While the courts must determine whether the UberPop service is illegal (because drivers lack a license or do not pay taxes), the newcomer is an unpleasant reality for established taxi drivers. Livelihood theft, as well as resentment over colleagues going to work for the despised enemy, is turning the atmosphere on the streets grim.

title: Stank voor dank

overview: Whistleblowers stick their necks out by exposing workplace misconduct. This is usually not appreciated.  Filmmaker Frans Bromet speaks with whistleblowers about the far-reaching consequences that 'whistleblowing' has on their lives. The lives of the whistleblowers Bromet speaks to are irreparably damaged. Amidst stacks of binders and newspaper articles about what happened, the personal drama unfolds.

title: De dokter onder vuur

overview: Making mistakes is human. But when doctors make mistakes, it often has far-reaching consequences. Frans Bromet speaks with doctors who have made serious medical errors.  Talking about mistakes is by no means a matter of course within the medical profession. The trust that the patient places in the doctor proves to be a great asset. Betraying that trust is a devastating experience for the medical professionals. Yet they are willing to speak openly ‘because otherwise you deny the patient and their family the opportunity to understand, to process what has happened.’ But above all, because you can only learn from mistakes by making them open for discussion. Only then can hospitals actually take measures or implement improvements.

title: In één klap

overview: You usually don't stop to think when you get into your car that the moment could be very close when you could cause a fatal accident. Yet, this happens to a few hundred people every year. In one fell swoop, five motorized road users talk about the consequences for their lives following this traumatic event. Together with Frans Bromet, they return to the scene of the accident.

title: Welkom thuis

overview: Frans Bromet delves into a mysterious feud that has divided his family for decades. Its origins lie in a conflict that arose on the Jewish side of the family after the Second World War.

title: Doe-het-zelf zorg

overview: Care in the Netherlands is deeply embedded in our social system. However, care has become unaffordable; something must change to curb costs. The Municipality of Rotterdam has therefore put care in its municipality out to tender with the aim of offering a new, affordable form of care.  The deployment of volunteers is intended to bring down costs. Full of enthusiasm, the new care workers are embarking on their mission, leaving the old organizations that previously performed the work destitute.

title: Brandend verlangen

overview: The first cigarette. It begins so innocently, recklessly, and carefree. Like puppy love whose consequences you cannot yet foresee. For budding love grows into an addiction with all the consequences that entails, which unfortunately often also heralds the beginning of the end.  Burning Desire is a kaleidoscopic and intimate narrative in which smokers speak about their great love, the cigarette. And what smoking brought them, but above all, what it has taken away. They are living on borrowed time. The love has proven irreversible.

title: Opvoeden, 19 jaar later

overview: In 1995, Frans Bromet created the successful series Opvoeden (Raising Children), in which he portrayed families facing significant parenting challenges. Twenty years later, Frans looks back on the difficult childhoods of the now-adult children. As ‘products’ of their parents, are the protagonists capable of taking a completely different approach, or does the parenting style they inherited prove to be deeply embedded in their DNA?

title: Ajax! Joden! Amsterdam!

overview: For several decades, the hard core of Ajax supporters has used the derogatory term 'Jews'. This provokes reactions from the opposing side that are antisemitic or appear so, whether intended or not, and which are experienced by many Jews as deeply offensive. Should the use of this derogatory term in, for example, chants be banned or permitted? And where does the association of Ajax with Jews actually come from? This documentary provides a comprehensive and varied picture of the background to this issue. Jewish Ajax supporters, administrators, Amsterdammers, and Israeli Ajax fans, as well as non-Jewish Ajax supporters, administrators, and opponents, share their perspectives.

title: Homopesten

overview: In 'Homopesten', Frans Bromet paints a shocking picture of homophobia in the Netherlands. Helen is a lesbian and is bullied by her neighbors. They urinate in her garden, vandalize the walls, and throw feces at the windows.

title: Overtollig vet

overview: Frans Bromet, like 3.5 million Dutch people, is trying to lose excess weight. On his daughter's advice, he visits a gym in Purmerend. There he meets the likeable but tough fitness instructor Daniëlle de Boer, who is eager to help him. She tackles her clients in a militant manner. Bromet has his doubts.

title: Regelzucht

overview: Frans Bromet follows Anna-Titia (42). She has rheumatism, arthritis and a hereditary condition that makes her tired quickly and walk poorly.

title: De zwevende kiezer

overview: Frans Bromet made a documentary about the 2002 Dutch parliamentary elections. As an undecided voter, Frans interviews the party leaders Paul Rosenmöller (GroenLinks), Pim Fortuyn (LPF), Thom de Graaf (D66), Jan Marijnissen (SP), Fred Teeven (LN), and Hans Dijkstal (VVD) about their election manifestos. He tries to find out who he should vote for.

title: Het drielandenpunt

overview: Autobiographical documentary in which Frans Bromet persuades his Jewish father, who has not set foot in Germany since 1931, to cross the border.  Director Frans Bromet's Jewish father has not set foot on German soil since 1931. In this documentary, the filmmaker follows his parents and a befriended couple on May 4th, as they commemorate the dead near the tri-border point in Vaals. He tries to persuade his father to cross the border—illegally—into the deeply hated neighboring country. A physically small, but mentally enormous step that leads to remarkable reflections.

title: Eigenwijs participeren

overview: Report by Frans Bromet on self-organizations of immigrants in the Netherlands and the role these organizations play in the integration of immigrants into Dutch society.  Bromet visits, among other places, a radio studio in Nijmegen where a program for Somalis is being recorded, the 'bowling for Turkish families' package by STGT, and an information evening about politics in the Netherlands for immigrant women. Some activities explicitly aim for integration, while for others, integration is at best a side effect.

title: Het water komt…

overview: Documentary by Frans Bromet about the potential danger of flooding in his hometown of Ilpendam in North Holland as a result of climate change.

title: Klarendal, tranendal?

overview: Documentary filmmaker Frans Bromet portrays the Arnhem neighborhood of Klarendal through the eyes of its residents, organizations, activities, and problems.  The neighborhood is on the list of forty problem neighborhoods announced in 2007 by Ella Vogelaar, Minister of Housing, Neighborhoods, and Integration. Under the 'Vogelaar approach,' the neighborhoods on this list are subject to a multi-year, comprehensive restructuring, in which government bodies collaborate with housing corporations and social, community, and cultural institutions established in the area.  Together with the residents, Bromet questions whether such a restructuring is necessary and, if so, how it can best be implemented.

title: Superstau

overview: Every year, many Germans are preparing to spend their vacations in the sunny south. And they all have to use the same highways. And every year everything ends in a big traffic jam.

title: 1, 2, 3, Rhapsody

title: A Question of Silence

overview: When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.

title: A Question of Silence

title: Alles van waarde

title: What Are We Doing?

title: What Are We Doing?

title: Zorg-om-zorg

title: Onder de huid

title: VD

overview: 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.

title: Broken Mirrors

overview: Diane and Dora are two prostitutes who begin to rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile, in another part of town, a murderer is at large.

title: Obsessions

overview: A young medical student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.

title: A Labyrinth of Time

overview: Carefully composed portrait of prominent modern composer Elliott Carter (1908-1912). Scheffer depicts both the person and the development in his music and the musical tradition it grew out of, as well as the time in which the American Carter grew up. The result: historical images of the city of New York, old film footage, cinematographic finds to illustrate the music and statements by conspicuous fellow-composers and musicians, including Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim.

title: Alsof ik Palestina heb gestolen

title: Alsof ik Palestina heb gestolen

title: The Bosom Friend

overview: In 1811, hilarity ensues when a corrupt Dutch colonel mistakes a quack dentist for one of Napoleon's inspectors general.

title: Het nieuwe Soestdijk

title: Het nieuwe Soestdijk

title: Het nieuwe Soestdijk

title: De Noord 20-29

title: De Noord 20-29

title: De Noord 20-29

title: Ik ben Joep Meloen

overview: Joep is a piano tuner, and not the best in his profession. His fiancee ends their relationship and Joep wants to end his life. Then he meets Dorien. They fall in love, but they must deal with some issues from the past--like an ex-lover and a hitman.

title: Muziek op de vlucht

title: Ciske the Rat

overview: Lovable Amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old Ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the Dutch 1984 title suggests. He is a scamp with a heart of gold. He causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. His mother works in a bar and Ciske helps out often late into the night - his father is at sea and his mother supplements her income with prostitution. Ciske is also a very angry young man and he smoulders with rage at life's injustices.

title: Rubia's Jungle

overview: A man obsesses over Rubia as the girl of his dreams, but she is lost in a world of her own as she obsesses after a man who doesn't know she exists.

title: Scootmobiel

overview: Frans Bromet follows scoot drivers of different ages about their lives. He talks to them about what has changed since they got a mobility scooter, about how their living space has increased, about the limitations of the vehicle and about what is and is no longer possible in private.

title: Legal weed 2

title: Legal weed

title: Legal weed

title: Legal weed 2

title: Een tip van de sluier

title: Brother Where You Bound

overview: A man becomes an extremist after a military official disrespects his country.

title: Camping

overview: Happiness and sadness, joy and sorrow at the campsite. Secret letters, hysteria, bullying, hippie romanticism, betrayal and fading love.

title: Leegstaand monument

title: Intoxicated

overview: Playwright and director Nils Wijn brings his relationship issues to the stage. In his play "The Whore, the Virgin, and the Dying Man," he has his girlfriend Tessa appear in revealing lingerie and takes her to a real prostitute for some practical lessons. This is too much for the actress. Their problem turns out to be contagious, as other members of the theater company also get into arguments with their partners.

title: The Generous Lover

overview: A comedy based on two novels by Marjan Berk about a smooth-talking artist with love problems. He is in love but is pursued by former lovers.

title: Paul Chevrolet and the Ultimate Hallucination

overview: The actual life and the fiction created by a successful pulp author begin to blend together.

original_title: Paul Chevrolet en de ultieme hallucinatie

title: My new friends from ward three

title: My new friends from ward three

title: The Rattle Rat

overview: A rich Frisian farmer has been murdered in Amsterdam and police duo Grijpstra & De Gier are sent to investigate. Adjutant Grijpstra has problems at home again and is happy to leave for Friesland to investigate the murder. Sgt. De Gier finds the Frisian Hylke much more interesting than the murder case. In Leeuwarden there is a real Chinese war and a brutal robbery at the cattle market. Suddenly there is that friendly rattling, asthmatic rat who provides an unexpected solution.

title: Drop-out

overview: A group of Amsterdam schoolchildren travel through the Netherlands in a wildly painted van. The aim of their journey is to preach rebellion against the education system. With rather vague arguments, they try to persuade other students to go on strike. When this seems to work, the teachers set up the 'Association of Concerned Teachers'. This association will try to sabotage the bus in every possible way. The result is a boomerang effect...

title: Frank and Eva

overview: The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can't live together, but can't live without each other either. Frank has sex with every woman he can get, while Eva wants to start a family.

title: Nazaten

title: Cancer Rising

overview: Well to do business man Pierre falls for the unpredictable and free spirited Toni. They begin a relationship, despite the fact that she's living with another man who is the father of her child.

title: Levenslied

title: In the Name of the Law

overview: Partially staged documentary by Barbara den Uyl investigates the case of Hans Kok, the squatter who was found dead in an Amsterdam police cell in October 1985.

title: The Compromise

overview: A group of expatriates living in Holland turn to sex, dope and music to augment their daily routines. One comes to resent a couple who becomes part of the exclusive social elite. An American actor muses over his draft notice, and he becomes jealous when a beautiful model he covets takes up with a radical writer.

title: Silent Love

overview: Victim of the breakdown in trust and communication between his estranged parents 12 year old Sem de Rijn has not seen his father for 6 months when he arrives at his school one afternoon and offers the boy a holiday. They run away together driving through Holland and Belgium, camping out and generally having the kinds of adventures a boy dreams of until pursued by the police and torn between his love for his mother and his father, Sem and his father return to face the music.

title: The Pointsman

overview: A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language.

title: Hollywood by Bike

overview: Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others.

title: Iris

overview: A female veterinarian moves to the country side to start her own practice. She encounters a lot a skeptical villagers.

title: Total Loss

overview: Short film in which an innocent girl takes care of a seriously injured gangster.

title: Joszef Katús's Not Too Fortunate Return to the Land of Rembrandt

overview: The dutchified Hungarian Joszef Katús returns, after a months-long absence, to Amsterdam on 29 April 1966. The arrival of the Provos changed a great deal in the Dutch capital. The film follows Katús, mostly roaming the streets, in a loose documentary style. The events are set against the backdrop of four national occasions - The Queen's Birthday, Labour Day, Liberation Day and Remembrance Day.

original_title: De minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Katús naar het land van Rembrandt

title: Alsof ik Palestina heb gestolen

title: Hoe word ik joods?

title: Iron Butterflies

overview: This lesson in political revelation focuses on the shooting down of the Malaysian passenger jet MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. A meticulous, investigative exposé that lays bare the mechanisms of Russian warfare.

original_title: Залізні метелики

title: Held op papier

overview: 41-year-old receptionist and part-time Lucky Luke imitator Rutger stands in the shadow of his alter ego, the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow. In a last-ditch attempt to become a comic book hero, he wages war against the disappointments of everyday life and draws a comic strip starring himself. And why not? With a little imagination, we are all comic book heroes in our daily lives.

title: De burgerwacht

title: De burgerwacht

title: Legal weed

title: Under the spell of the bomb

title: Under the spell of the bomb

title: Vader in de tuin

title: Vader in de tuin

title: Verstopt

title: Verstopt

title: Leve de organen

title: Leve de organen

title: Een goede moslima

title: Een goede moslima

title: Leegstaand monument

title: Telkens weer Willeke

overview: Documentary filmmaker Silvia Bromet is fascinated by the woman who, despite the setbacks in her life, keeps standing tall time and again. What lies behind that radiant smile? What drives her to still perform so much? By whom is she herself comforted?

title: Man in de knoop

title: Man in de knoop

title: De film die nooit afkwam

title: De film die nooit afkwam

title: Taxibotsing

title: Taxibotsing

title: Stank voor dank

title: Stank voor dank

title: Muziek op de vlucht

title: Zelfvoorzienend met behoud van comfort

overview: If it were up to Matthieu Smakman (52), a living community would rise in rural Purmer in the foreseeable future, where residents would be entirely autonomous in meeting their own needs. A place where vegetables come straight from the vegetable garden and you can still see the stars in the night sky, 'to get in touch with nature and bring your life into balance.' That is necessary because, at the height of Smakman's eventful career as an entrepreneur, he is often so busy that he forgets the names of his children. What begins as a small-scale and noble endeavor grows ever larger. With inexhaustible enthusiasm, the couple conquers the administrative offices. However, they also face setbacks. Will Matthieu Smakman manage to hold on to his ideals at all costs?

title: Zelfvoorzienend met behoud van comfort

title: De dokter onder vuur

title: De dokter onder vuur

title: In één klap

title: In één klap

title: Welkom thuis

title: Welkom thuis

title: Doe-het-zelf zorg

title: Doe-het-zelf zorg

title: Brandend verlangen

title: Brandend verlangen

title: Zorg-om-zorg

title: Opvoeden, 19 jaar later

title: Opvoeden, 19 jaar later

title: Ajax! Joden! Amsterdam!

title: Ajax! Joden! Amsterdam!

title: Alles van waarde

title: Onder de huid

title: Homopesten

title: Homopesten

title: Overtollig vet

title: Overtollig vet

title: Regelzucht

title: Regelzucht

title: De zwevende kiezer

title: De zwevende kiezer

title: Een stap terug

overview: In 1988, Frans Bromet made the documentary 'A Step Back' for the VPRO. He wonders what it would mean if the economy were to shrink and whether we would become unhappy as a result.

title: Een stap terug

title: Een stap terug

title: Het drielandenpunt

title: Het drielandenpunt

title: Het drielandenpunt

title: Surf Punks

overview: Excellent documentary about the very early LA hardcore punk scene that almost seems accidental. Upon visiting LA in the summer of '81 the film maker notices that strangely enough Punk doesn't seem to be dead in L.A., but on the contrary, there seems to be a massive teenage movement going on. He decides to make a short documentary about it. As he says (not without irony); "Since everything happens a few years earlier in the US, I can show the parents back home what's in store for them". He was ofcourse witness to the baby steps of the hardcore scene. This is the only documentary of the era that is not sensationalizing or mythologizing. It doesn't talk to any of the scene "stars" but rather follows a few disenfranchised suburban kids and runaways (in Venice beach I think). A rare look into a self destructive and nihilistic scene, where the main motives seem to be restlessness and soul crushing boredom. Perhaps one of the very few documentaries that give this era a human face.

title: Ik wil weer vrij zijn

overview: Hard drug user Ruud Boer, 26, is followed by a camera for about three-quarters of a year after his release from Esserheem prison in Veenhuizen. After that prison sentence, he is neither "clean" nor clean. As with most heroin addicts, heroin use and criminality go hand in hand for him.

title: Ik wil weer vrij zijn

title: Eigenwijs participeren

title: Eigenwijs participeren

title: Het water komt…

title: Het water komt…

title: Klarendal, tranendal?

title: Klarendal, tranendal?

title: Nazaten

title: My new friends from ward three

title: What Are We Doing?

title: Cha Cha

overview: Bank robber Herman Brood becomes a rock and roll star with the help of Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich.

title: What Are We Doing?

title: De grens van Frans Bromet

title: De Noord 20-29

title: Alsof ik Palestina heb gestolen

title: Legal weed 2

title: Een tip van de sluier

title: Here Is Always Somewhere Else

title: My new friends from ward three

title: Alles van waarde

title: Muziek op de vlucht

title: Legal weed

title: Het nieuwe Soestdijk

title: Nazaten

title: Leegstaand monument

title: Zorg-om-zorg

title: Onder de huid

title: 1, 2, 3, Rhapsody

title: Hoe word ik joods?

title: De burgerwacht

title: Under the spell of the bomb

title: Vader in de tuin

title: Verstopt

title: Leve de organen

title: Een goede moslima

title: Man in de knoop

title: De film die nooit afkwam

title: Taxibotsing

title: Stank voor dank

title: De dokter onder vuur

title: In één klap

title: Welkom thuis

title: Doe-het-zelf zorg

title: Brandend verlangen

title: Opvoeden, 19 jaar later

title: Ajax! Joden! Amsterdam!

title: Homopesten

title: Overtollig vet

title: Regelzucht

title: De zwevende kiezer

title: Het drielandenpunt

title: Eigenwijs participeren

title: Het water komt…

title: Klarendal, tranendal?

title: Superstau

title: 1, 2, 3, Rhapsody

title: A Question of Silence

title: A Question of Silence

title: Alles van waarde

title: What Are We Doing?

title: What Are We Doing?

title: Zorg-om-zorg

title: Onder de huid

title: VD

title: Broken Mirrors

title: Obsessions

title: A Labyrinth of Time

title: Alsof ik Palestina heb gestolen

title: Alsof ik Palestina heb gestolen

title: The Bosom Friend

title: Het nieuwe Soestdijk

title: Het nieuwe Soestdijk

title: Het nieuwe Soestdijk

title: De Noord 20-29

title: De Noord 20-29

title: De Noord 20-29

title: Ik ben Joep Meloen

title: Muziek op de vlucht

title: Ciske the Rat

title: Rubia's Jungle

title: Scootmobiel

title: Legal weed

title: Legal weed 2

title: Legal weed 2

title: Legal weed

title: Een tip van de sluier

title: Brother Where You Bound

title: Camping

title: Leegstaand monument

title: Intoxicated

title: The Generous Lover

title: My new friends from ward three

title: My new friends from ward three

title: The Rattle Rat

title: Drop-out

title: Frank and Eva

title: Nazaten

title: Cancer Rising

title: Levenslied

title: In the Name of the Law

title: The Compromise

title: Silent Love

title: The Pointsman

title: Hollywood by Bike

title: Iris

title: Total Loss

title: Alsof ik Palestina heb gestolen

title: Hoe word ik joods?

title: Iron Butterflies

original_title: Залізні метелики

title: Held op papier

title: De burgerwacht

title: De burgerwacht

title: Legal weed

title: Under the spell of the bomb

title: Under the spell of the bomb

title: Vader in de tuin

title: Vader in de tuin

title: Verstopt

title: Verstopt

title: Leve de organen

title: Leve de organen

title: Een goede moslima

title: Een goede moslima

title: Leegstaand monument

title: Telkens weer Willeke

title: Man in de knoop

title: Man in de knoop

title: De film die nooit afkwam

title: De film die nooit afkwam

title: Taxibotsing

title: Taxibotsing

title: Stank voor dank

title: Stank voor dank

title: Muziek op de vlucht

title: Zelfvoorzienend met behoud van comfort

title: Zelfvoorzienend met behoud van comfort

title: De dokter onder vuur

title: De dokter onder vuur

title: In één klap

title: In één klap

title: Welkom thuis

title: Welkom thuis

title: Doe-het-zelf zorg

title: Doe-het-zelf zorg

title: Brandend verlangen

title: Brandend verlangen

title: Zorg-om-zorg

title: Opvoeden, 19 jaar later

title: Opvoeden, 19 jaar later

title: Ajax! Joden! Amsterdam!

title: Ajax! Joden! Amsterdam!

title: Alles van waarde

title: Onder de huid

title: Homopesten

title: Homopesten

title: Overtollig vet

title: Overtollig vet

title: Regelzucht

title: Regelzucht

title: De zwevende kiezer

title: De zwevende kiezer

title: Een stap terug

title: Een stap terug

title: Een stap terug

title: Het drielandenpunt

title: Het drielandenpunt

title: Het drielandenpunt

title: Surf Punks

title: Ik wil weer vrij zijn

title: Ik wil weer vrij zijn

title: Eigenwijs participeren

title: Eigenwijs participeren

title: Het water komt…

title: Het water komt…

title: Klarendal, tranendal?

title: Klarendal, tranendal?

title: Nazaten

title: My new friends from ward three

title: What Are We Doing?

title: Cha Cha


Anthony Andrews

biography:
Anthony Andrews made his West End theater debut at the Apollo Theatre as one of twenty young schoolboys in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On" with John Gielgud. He began his career at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK. His theater credits include spells with the New Shakespeare Company - "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The Royal National Theatre production of Stephen Poliakoff's "Coming in to Land" with Maggie Smith, directed by Peter Hall, the much-acclaimed Greenwich Theatre production of Robin Chapman's "One of Us" and, as "Pastor Manders", in Robin Phillips's highly acclaimed production of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Comedy Theatre in London, produced by Bill Kenwright.

Anthony's first television appearance was in The Wednesday Play: A Beast with Two Backs  (1968) by Dennis Potter, which was part of The Wednesday Play (1964) series. His first leading role in a series was as the title character in the BBC's The Fortunes of Nigel (1974) by Sir Walter Scott. Subsequently, he distinguished himself in various television classics playing "Mercutio" in Romeo & Juliet (1978) and starred in three different plays in the "Play of the Month" (1976) series, including playing "Charles Harcourt" in "London Assurance". He also starred in Danger UXB (1979), in which he played bomb disposal hero "Brian Ash".

Most famously, he received worldwide recognition for his portrayal of the doomed "Sebastian Flyte" in Brideshead Revisited  (1981) for which he won a BAFTA in the UK, the Golden Globe award in the USA and an Emmy nomination for Best Actor.

Anthony's since gone on to star in Jewels  (1992), for which he received another Golden Globe nomination.

Most recently, Anthony has received tremendous acclaim for his outstanding portrayal of "Count Fosco" in "The Woman In White" at the Palace Theatre in London's West End.

As a producer, he co-produced Lost in Siberia

(1991), which translates as "Lost in Siberia", filmed entirely in Russia, which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film and Haunted (1995), produced by his own production company, Double 'A' Films.

Columbo

overview: Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

character: Elliott Blake

original_name: Columbo

original_language: en

Tales from the Crypt

overview: Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

character: Jonathan

original_name: Tales from the Crypt

Danger UXB

overview:
Danger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters.

The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.

character: Lieutenant Brian Ash

original_name: Danger UXB

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

overview: The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.

character: Self

original_name: The Alan Titchmarsh Show

Pebble Mill

overview: Pebble Mill was a re-launched version of the 1970s daily chat show Pebble Mill (also known as Pebble Mill At One for a while) which aired on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The series premiered on October 14, 1991. The show was a mixture of celebrity guests and music. Alan Titchmarsh was a presenter on the show throughout it's complete run. Other presenters included Judi Spiers, Gloria Hunniford and Ross King.

original_name: Pebble Mill

Nightmare Classics

overview: An anthology series featuring adaptations of well-known horror stories, produced by Shelley Duvall. Following the success of her two previous anthology series – Faerie Tale Theatre and Tall Tales & Legends – both of which were aimed at the elementary-school audience, Duvall attempted to branch out to the teenage and adult audience with Nightmare Classics.

character: Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde

original_name: Nightmare Classics

The Syndicate

overview: A drama exploring how winning the lottery transforms the lives of ordinary people.

character: Lord Hazelwood

original_name: The Syndicate

Bornebusch i tevefabriken

overview: Actress and writer Josephine Bornebusch takes a dive into the world of tv-series and meets the stars and the people behind the successes.

character: Guest

original_name: Bornebusch i tevefabriken

original_language: sv

An Audience with...

overview: An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.

original_name: An Audience with...

Upstairs, Downstairs

overview: Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.

character: Marquis Robert Stockbridge

original_name: Upstairs, Downstairs

character: Marquis of Stockbridge

Jewels

overview: Sarah Thompson, an American visiting England, meets and marries William Whitfield, the Duke of Whitfield. They settle in a chateau in France and begin a family. World War II interrupts their happiness and alters their future. After the war, the family helps war survivors by buying their jewelry and eventually opens a jewelry store, which rapidly becomes a success. But conflicts abound as new generations arise and forces from both outside and within threaten the store and the family.

character: William Whitfield

original_name: Jewels

QB VII

overview: A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.

character: Stephen Kelno

original_name: QB VII

Wogan

overview: Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

original_name: Wogan

Cambridge Spies

overview: In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge students are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow.

character: King George VI

original_name: Cambridge Spies

A.D.

overview:
A.D. is a 1985 television drama miniseries created and written by Vincenzo Labella and Anthony Burgess, based on Burgess' historical novel The Kingdom of the Wicked. The five-part serial is considered the third and final part of a trilogy, preceded by Moses the Lawgiver (1974) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977).

Set just after Jesus' Crucifixion, the lives and adventures of His disciples are explored, and events in Rome during the reigns of Emperors Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.

character: Nero

Agatha Christie's Marple

overview: The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

character: Tommy

original_name: Agatha Christie's Marple

The Love Boat

overview: Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.

character: Tony Selkirk

original_name: The Love Boat

The English Game

overview: Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide navigate professional and personal turmoil to change the game — and England — forever.

character: Lord Kinnaird

original_name: The English Game

BBC Play of the Month

overview: A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

character: Hon. Alan Howard

original_name: BBC Play of the Month

character: Charles Courtly

character: Horner

David Copperfield

overview:
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

A co-production with Time-Life Television Productions, the miniseries was first broadcast on BBC 1 in weekly parts from 1 December 1974 to 5 January 1975. It is the earliest BBC adaptation to exist in its entirety; the 1956 adaptation is completely lost, whilst only four of the 1966 adaptation's eight episodes are known to exist.

character: James Steerforth

original_name: David Copperfield

origin_country: IE GB

Brideshead Revisited

overview: Agnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the family deepen for the decades between the two world wars.

character: Sebastian Flyte

original_name: Brideshead Revisited

The Pallisers

overview: This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based on Anthony Trollope’s “political” novels .

character: Earl of Silverbridge

original_name: The Pallisers

The Duchess of Duke Street

overview: In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.

character: Marcus Carrington

original_name: The Duchess of Duke Street

Bluegrass

overview: A woman tries to be successful in the male-dominated horse racing business. Intrigue, greed, power games and love trying to put stones in her way.

character: Michael Fitzgerald

original_name: Bluegrass

David Copperfield

character: Edward Murdstone

origin_country: IE US

The Sunday Drama

overview: Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.

character: Harry

original_name: The Sunday Drama

A Fine Romance

overview: Louisa Phillips and Michael Trent are a once-married couple who are still tied together by their job of co-hosting a travel show.

character: Michael Trent

original_name: A Fine Romance

origin_country: GB US

The BBC Television Shakespeare

overview: The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.

character: Mercutio

original_name: The BBC Television Shakespeare

The Fortunes of Nigel

overview: Based on Walter Scott's novel, follows Nigel Olifaunt as he seeks to save his family estate after inheriting the title of Lord Glenvarloch. Betrayed by Lord Dalgarno, he becomes a fugitive but ultimately clears his name and marries Margaret. The series, known for its impressive production, aired in 1974 during UK children's hour and drew a broader audience.

character: Sir Nigel Olifaunt

original_name: The Fortunes of Nigel

American Playhouse

overview: American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

character: John D. 'Johnnie' Aysgarth

original_name: American Playhouse

Deutsch

Anthony Andrews

biography:
Anthony Andrews gab sein West-End-Theaterdebüt im Apollo Theatre als einer von zwanzig jungen Schülern in Alan Bennetts „Forty Years On“ an der Seite von John Gielgud. Seine Karriere begann er am Chichester Festival Theatre in Großbritannien. Zu seinen Theaterengagements zählen Engagements bei der New Shakespeare Company in „Romeo und Julia“ und „Ein Sommernachtstraum“. Er spielte außerdem in Stephen Poliakoffs „Coming in to Land“ am Royal National Theatre mit Maggie Smith unter der Regie von Peter Hall, in Robin Chapmans vielbeachteter Produktion „One of Us“ am Greenwich Theatre sowie als Pastor Manders in Robin Phillips’ gefeierter Inszenierung von Henrik Ibsens „Gespenster“ am Comedy Theatre in London unter der Regie von Bill Kenwright.

Anthonys erster Fernsehauftritt war in „The Wednesday Play: A Beast with Two Backs“ (1968) von Dennis Potter, einer Folge der gleichnamigen Fernsehserie von 1964. Seine erste Hauptrolle in einer Serie spielte er als Titelheld in Sir Walter Scotts BBC-Verfilmung „The Fortunes of Nigel“ (1974). Anschließend wirkte er in verschiedenen Fernsehklassikern mit, unter anderem als Mercutio in „Romeo und Julia“ (1978) und in drei Stücken der Reihe „Play of the Month“ (1976), darunter als Charles Harcourt in „London Assurance“. Außerdem spielte er in „Danger UXB“ (1979) den Bombenentschärfer Brian Ash.

Weltweite Anerkennung erlangte er vor allem durch seine Darstellung des tragischen Sebastian Flyte in „Wiedersehen mit Brideshead“ (1981), für die er in Großbritannien einen BAFTA, in den USA einen Golden Globe und eine Emmy-Nominierung als Bester Hauptdarsteller erhielt.

Anthony spielte später in „Jewels“ (1992) mit, wofür er erneut für einen Golden Globe nominiert wurde.

Zuletzt erntete Anthony großen Beifall für seine herausragende Darstellung des Grafen Fosco in „Die Frau in Weiß“ am Palace Theatre im Londoner West End.

Als Produzent war er Koproduzent von „Lost in Siberia“ (1991), einem vollständig in Russland gedrehten Film, der für einen Golden Globe als bester fremdsprachiger Film nominiert wurde, sowie von „Haunted“ (1995), produziert von seiner eigenen Produktionsfirma Double 'A' Films.

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安东尼·安德鲁斯

biography: 安东尼·安德鲁斯（Anthony Andrews）在阿波罗剧院（Apollo Theatre）首次亮相西区剧院，作为艾伦·贝内特（Alan Bennett）与约翰·吉尔古德（John Gielgud）合作的“四十年”（Forty Years On）中的二十名年轻男生之一。他的职业生涯始于英国奇切斯特节日剧院。他的戏剧作品包括与新莎士比亚剧团合作的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》和《仲夏夜之梦》。由彼得·霍尔执导的斯蒂芬·波利亚科夫（Stephen Poliakoff）与玛吉·史密斯（Maggie Smith）合作的皇家国家剧院（Stephen Poliakoff）的《来到陆地》（Coming in to Land），广受好评的格林威治剧院（Greenwich Theatre）制作的罗宾·查普曼（Robin Chapman）的《我们中的一个》（One of Us），以及罗宾·菲利普斯（Robin Phillips）在伦敦喜剧剧院（Comedy Theatre）制作的亨利克·易卜生（Henrik Ibsen）的《幽灵》（Ghosts）中饰演“曼德斯牧师”（Pastor Manders）。

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biography: Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews (Finchley, Londres, 12 de gener de 1948) és un actor anglès. Està casat amb l'actriu Georgina Simpson.

普通话

安東尼·安德魯斯

biography: 安東尼·安德魯斯（Anthony Andrews）在阿波羅劇院（Apollo Theatre）首次亮相西區劇院，作為艾倫·貝內特（Alan Bennett）與約翰·吉爾古德（John Gielgud）合作的“四十年”（Forty Years On）中的二十名年輕男生之一。他的職業生涯始於英國奇切斯特節日劇院。他的戲劇作品包括與新莎士比亞劇團合作的《羅密歐與茱麗葉之後現代激情篇》和《仲夏夜之夢》。由彼得·霍爾執導的斯蒂芬·波利亞科夫（Stephen Poliakoff）與瑪吉·史密斯（Maggie Smith）合作的皇家國家劇院（Stephen Poliakoff）的《來到陸地》（Coming in to Land），廣受好評的格林威治劇院（Greenwich Theatre）製作的羅賓·查普曼（Robin Chapman）的《我們中的一個》（One of Us），以及羅賓·菲利普斯（Robin Phillips）在倫敦喜劇劇院（Comedy Theatre）製作的亨利克·易卜生（Henrik Ibsen）的《幽靈》（Ghosts）中飾演“曼德斯牧師”（Pastor Manders）。

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Энтони Эндрюс

biography: Энтони Корин Джеральд Эндрюс - английский актёр кино и телевидения, лауреат премий «Золотой глобус» (1983) и BAFTA-TV (1982) и номинант на премию «Эмми» (1982).

title: The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

overview: Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.

title: A Beast with Two Backs

overview: A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.

title: Sparkling Cyanide

overview: The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after her death, it seems more likely that she was murdered, as all the dinner guests had good reason to want her dead.

title: The Scarlet Pimpernel

overview: During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin

character: Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel

title: The Holcroft Covenant

overview: A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.

title: Under the Volcano

overview: Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.

title: Ivanhoe

overview: Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England.

title: Haunted

overview: Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.

title: Operation: Daybreak

overview: Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

title: Percy's Progress

overview: Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.

title: David Copperfield

title: Lost in Siberia

overview: The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.

original_title: Затерянный в Сибири

title: Hands of a Murderer

overview: Sherlock Holmes must track down his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, after the villain kidnaps Holmes' brother, Mycroft. The evil doctor is forcing his captive to decode highly classified military documents.

title: Take Me High

overview: Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant bank, but even his happy-go-lucky attitude is severely jolted when he is sent to Birmingham instead of his promised New York for his posting!  But comedy reigns when the enterprising bank manager helps an unsuccessful Birmingham restaurant compete with its rivals by introducing a new fast food - the Brumburger!

title: A War of Children

overview: A Protestant and a Catholic family's friendship is threatened  by the sectarian violence in Belfast. When the daughter of the Catholic family falls in love with a British soldier, the situation worsens ...

title: Revisiting Brideshead

overview: Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".

title: The Adolescents

overview: A shy girl named Ana is sent to an English boarding school. After a period of adjustment, she travels to London with two of her more world weary classmates and becomes the target for a trio of men who take illicit photographs of young girls to be published in 'Estimulation' Magazine.

title: The Professor and the Madman

overview: Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

title: Observations Under the Volcano

overview: Documentary on the making of the movie Under the Volcano.

title: The Woman He Loved

overview: In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England.

title: An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

overview: Dame Edna Everage takes questions from a celebrity audience about her life and career.

title: The King's Speech

overview: The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

title: Notes from Under the Volcano

overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).

title: Mothertime

overview: Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage daughter runs the house and tries to engineer a reunion between her parents. But the parents have been keeping secrets from their children, and nothing is as it seems.

title: A Day Out

overview: Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .

title: The Country Wife

title: The Second Victory

overview: After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, prompting a joint British-German manhunt operation to capture him.

title: Hanna's War

overview: Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain, she parachutes into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, however, leads to her capture, torture and demise at the hands of the Gestapo and the Nazi-controlled Hungarian police.

title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

overview: Henry Jekyll, a shy and unassuming doctor, is obsessed with the idea of separating the good in man's nature from the evil, and is attracted to Rebecca, daughter of the head teacher of the medical school.

original_title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

title: The Grand Knockout Tournament

overview: The Grand Knockout Tournament (colloquially also known as It's a Royal Knockout) was a one-off charity event which was shown on British television on 19 June 1987. It followed the format of It's a Knockout, a slapstick TV gameshow which was broadcast in the UK until 1982.  The event was staged on the lakeside lawn of the Alton Towers stately home-cum-theme park.

title: The Law Lord

overview: A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment to heel and bypass Parliament altogether. Anthony Andrews says of writer and barrister  John Cooper (who wrote the ITV series The Advocates): "John is writing about a world he knows intimately. It is a most original and exciting screenplay and extremely prescient in view of the current controversies surrounding the judiciary."  Producer Simon Passmore Director Jim Goddard

title: French Without Tears

overview: The romantic and comic adventures of a group of Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.

title: Z for Zachariah

overview: Thanks to a nuclear holocaust, the world Ann Burden knew and everyone she ever loved is gone. But her solitude is about to change, and maybe there are worse things than being the last person on earth.

title: Romeo and Juliet

overview: Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife.

title: Mistress of Paradise

overview: In the 19th century, a wealthy Northern woman marries a Louisiana plantation owner and then becomes suspicious about his first wife's death.

title: Suspicion

overview: A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

title: Call girl: la vida privada de una señorita bien

overview: A girl enters the service of the owner of a brothel who will initiate her into the profession.

original_title: Call girl: la vida privada de una señorita bien

title: The Lighthorsemen

overview: In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.

title: Lost in Siberia

original_title: Затерянный в Сибири

title: Haunted

title: The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

title: A Beast with Two Backs

title: Sparkling Cyanide

title: The Scarlet Pimpernel

title: The Holcroft Covenant

title: Under the Volcano

title: Ivanhoe

title: Haunted

title: Operation: Daybreak

title: Percy's Progress

title: David Copperfield

title: Lost in Siberia

original_title: Затерянный в Сибири

title: Hands of a Murderer

title: Take Me High

title: A War of Children

title: Revisiting Brideshead

title: The Adolescents

title: The Professor and the Madman

title: Observations Under the Volcano

title: The Woman He Loved

title: An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

title: The King's Speech

title: Notes from Under the Volcano

title: Mothertime

title: A Day Out

title: The Country Wife

title: The Second Victory

title: Hanna's War

title: The Grand Knockout Tournament

title: The Law Lord

title: French Without Tears

title: Z for Zachariah

title: Romeo and Juliet

title: Mistress of Paradise

title: Suspicion

title: The Lighthorsemen

title: Lost in Siberia

original_title: Затерянный в Сибири

title: Haunted