Fons Rademakers
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 5, 1920
- Place of birth
- Roosendaal, Netherlands
- Died
- February 22, 2007
Biography
Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter.
His 1960 film Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award.
During a career spanning several decades he directed 11 films, including The Assault, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, and The Village on the River, nominated for the same award in 1959. Making him both the first Dutch director to be nominated and win this award.
He granted a wide-ranging interview to Radio Netherlands in 1987.
He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema, after the life-support machines were switched off at his request.
Movies with Fons Rademakers
- Daughters of Darkness 1971 · ★ 6.2
- Katie Tippel 1975 · ★ 6.3
- Mira 1971 · ★ 5.3
- Obsessions 1969 · ★ 4.6
- Mysteries 1978 · ★ 5.2
- Lifespan 1975 · ★ 5.0
- The Enemies 1968 · ★ 5.6
- Vrijdag 1981 · ★ 4.8
- All Rebels 1983 · ★ 8.0
- Hollywood by Bike 1993 · ★ 7.0
- Aah... Tamara 1965 · ★ 10.0
- Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces) 1973 · ★ 10.0
- Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving) 1977 · ★ 10.0
- Markant: Elise Hoomans 1972
Movies directed by Fons Rademakers
- The Assault 1986 · ★ 6.8
- Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company 1976 · ★ 6.2
- Because of the Cats 1973 · ★ 5.3
- Village by the River 1958 · ★ 6.9
- Like Two Drops of Water 1963 · ★ 6.4
- Mira 1971 · ★ 5.3
- The Knife 1961 · ★ 5.6
- The Rose Garden 1989 · ★ 6.7
- That Joyous Eve... 1960 · ★ 5.8
- My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter 1979 · ★ 4.6
- The Dance of the Heron 1966 · ★ 6.3