Louis van Gasteren Movies
- 2012
There Is No Plane to Zagreb
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A retrospective of events in director Louis van Gasteren’s life from 1964 to 1969, filmed by him in that period and reflected on from his...
- 1966
Because My Bike Was There...
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On 19 March 1966, a photo exhibition about the police intervention during the wedding of Beatrix and Claus opened in Amsterdam. After the opening,...
- 1983
Hans, Life Before Death
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Hans: Het Leven voor de dood (Hans, Life Before Death) is a documentary feature film about the life of the young composer Hans van Sweeden...
- 1957
Gijsbrecht van Aemstel
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Amsterdam is besieged by an alliance of Kennemers and Waterlanders, prepared to exact heavy vengeance on lord Gysbreght van Aemstel, the last...
- 1969
Begrijpt u nu waarom ik huil?
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The work of Leiden professor Bastiaans on dealing with the trauma of war victims attracts the attention of filmmaker Louis van Gasteren. He decides...
- 1957
The Stranding
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In Rotterdam, Baas (Lex Goudsmit) sells a batch of fake diamonds to a gang of international con-men. They pay in dollars: a suitcase full of...
- 2012
Nagele Revisited
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Fifty years after making A New Village on New Land (1960), Van Gasteren and co-director Joke Meerman return to Nagele. What has Nagele become? He...
- 1961
The House
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As a house is demolished, flashbacks are shown of the lives of the people who lived in it.
- 2003
The Price of Survival
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More than thirty years ago, Louis van Gasteren made the documentary BEGRIJPT U NU WAAROM IK HUIL? about a therapeutic LSD session that professor Jan...
- 2009
Overstag
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A personal portrait of farmer and politician Sicco Mansholt (1908-1995) by his good friend Louis van Gasteren and his wife Joke Meerman. Unique...
- 1954
Railplan 68
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Short documentary about the construction of tramlines in the centre of Amsterdam
- 1975
Do You Get It No. 3
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Do You Get It No. 3 deals with the behaviour of people who notice they are being filmed, without the viewer being directly aware of this. Van...
- 1962
Warffum 22.05.62
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Promotional film for the former Dutch post and telecom company PTT. The occasion was the complete automation of the Dutch telephone network on 22 May...
- 1961
All Birds Have Nests...
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This short essayistic documentary by Louis van Gasteren is an argument for the industrialised building of homes, in the typically optimistic tone of...
- 1983
All Rebels
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All Rebels paints a picture of the young people who congregated around Amsterdam’s Leidseplein square in the days before wider protest...
- 1960
A New Village on New Land
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The municipality of Nagele came about entirely on the drawing board and is an international symbol for the makeability of the Netherlands. Van...
- 1978
Do You Get It No. 4
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Footage of a sunny village square in Sardinia leads to humorous, philosophical reflections on reality and the role of the ‘objectively...
- 1965
The Procedure
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Short documentary where a student of medicine describes an experiment for which he drilled a small hole in his forehead in order to achieve a higher...
- 1964
Jazz and Poetry
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Short film documenting a performance by poet Ted Jones in combination with music by the Peter Kuiters Modern Jazz Group.
- 1989
Een Zaak van Niveau
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