The Northerners (1992)
De Noorderlingen
A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
- Date of release
- 1992-04-17
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (66)
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Alex van Warmerdam
Casting
- Jack Wouterse — Jacob
- Annet Malherbe — Martha
- Rudolf Lucieer — Anton
- Leonard Lucieer — Thomas
- Loes Wouterson — Elisabeth
- Alex van Warmerdam — Plagge
- Veerle Dobbelaere — Agnes
- Dary Some — Black man
- Theo van Gogh — Fat Willy
- Jacques Commandeur — Teacher
- Loes Luca — Fat Willy's Mother
- Leny Breederveld — Buurvrouw
Interesting facts
- Awards: 3 · Nominations: 4. Including: Young European Film of the Year; European Film Award for Best Composer; European Film Award for Best Production Designer
The Northerners is a 1992 Dutch film written and directed by Alex van Warmerdam. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. This black comedy takes places in the 1960s, in a surreal Dutch new town consisting of only a single street. It is a darkly amusing satire of bourgeois life and its repressions, pursuit of fantasies through a Freudian forest are all executed with visual and dramatic flair. Van Warmerdam himself has said that he considers this his best film.
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