De avonden (1989)

Director:

Rudolf van den Berg

Writers:

Gerard Reve (novel), Rudolf van den Berg,

Stars:

Thom Hoffman, Rijk de Gooyer, Viviane de Muynck

3 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Thom Hoffman	...	Frits van Egters
Rijk de Gooyer	...	Vader
Viviane de Muynck	...	Moeder
Pierre Bokma	...	Maurits
Elja Pelgrom	...	Bep
Dela Maria Vaags	...	Pim
Jobst Schnibbe	...	Wim
Gijs Scholten van Aschat	...	Viktor
Kees Hulst	...	Joop
Gwen Eckhaus	...	Ina
Gijs de Lange	...	Jaap
Hilde de Mildt	...	Joosje
Sylvia de Leur	...	Stien
Leen Jongewaard	...	Arie
Cees van Oyen	...	Wening

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

irony | autobiographical | 1950s | family relationships | homosexual | 

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Genres:

Biography | Drama

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Details

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch

Release Date:

8 December 1989 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

Evenings

Filming Locations:

Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Company Credits

Production Co:

Concorde Film, Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS), Praxino Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

122 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Zomergasten: Episode #9.3 (1996)

User Reviews

Dutch surrealism in the intimacy of the house-room.

Rudolf van den Berg makes a recognizable film of the novel by Gerard Reve with the same title. It is a difficult novel to make a movie because one has to enter into the complicated psychology of the young man Frits van Egters (a convincing Thom Hoffman) living with his parents. He has a difficulty to grow up and his contact with friends, neighbours, women are rather unsatisfactory so he prefers to make love with his rabbit-doll. The music by Bob Zimmerman gives the necessary rhythm to the slow pace of the movie. One likes to watch the strange dialogues of Frits with his indifferent father (Rijk De Gooier). The scenes are showing us the repetitive life of a Dutch family after the war, where nothing ever happens. But the director catches the inner passion of Frits who wants to unravel his secret "real life" to his parents who apparently do not understand him but feel compassion for him. At two times Frits thinks he is dead and he sees his mourning parents at his death-bed. So now they know definitely what they lost he thinks but some moments after he is again confronted with the

furniture of the living-room which has another sight by the frog-perspective of the camera. This seems to be the way he sees his life: from below. He finds only some emotional satisfaction by talking to his rabbit, rather than to human beings.