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Melancholy tales (1975)

Directed by Guido Pieters, Ernie Damen, Bas van der Lecq, Nouchka van Brakel

Overview

A series of four stories written by the Dutch writer Heere Heeresma, interpreted by four different directors. A confirmed bachelor bumps into his secretary after work. An old man just wants to be left alone at Christmas time. A former sailor yearns to get back to the sea, away from his clarinet playing wife. A shopkeeper in a rowboat gets into an argument with a postman on a bicycle.

Length 95 minutes

Actors

Henny Alma | Fien Berghegge | Jon Bluming | Jan Dahmen | Menno Dijkstra | John Kraaykamp | Rijk de Gooyer | Lex Goudsmit | Joost Prinsen | Wieteke van Dort | Peer Mascini