Abeltje (1998)

Director:

Ben Sombogaart

Writers:

Burny Bos (writer)
Annie M.G. Schmidt (novel)

Release Date:

26 November 1998 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Adventure | Family

Plot Keywords:

Bellboy | Water | Actor Playing Multiple Roles | Actress Playing Multiple Roles | Local Blockbuster

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Victor Löw	...	Schraap
Elleke Vervat	...	Vriendin Laura
Roxanne Stam	...	Vriendin Laura
Afroditi-Piteni Bijker	...	Vriendin Laura (as Afroditi Piteni Bijker)
Taina Moreno	...	Vriendin Laura
Nicole Sanchez	...	Vriendin Laura
Soraya Smith	...	Laura
Rick van Gastel	...	Abeltje Roef / Johnny Cockle Smith (as Ricky van Gastel)
Kees Hulst	...	Schoolmeester
Annet Malherbe	...	Moeder Roef / Mrs. Cockle-Smith
Arnita Swanson	...	TV Presentatrice
Marisa Van Eyle	...	Juffrouw Klaterhoen
Frits Lambrechts	...	Jozias Tump
Nora Kretz	...	Mevrouw Tump
Joseph Gudenburg	...	Politieagent

Also Known As:

Abeltje en het mysterie van Quoquapepapetl

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch | English | German | Spanish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Belgium:KT | Netherlands:AL

Filming Locations:

Bant, Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, Netherlands

Company:

AVRO Television

Trivia:

Rick van Gastel was almost killed in the scene where Abeltje's mother lands the seaplane near the scaffolding he stands on. The plane crashed into the scaffolding, and Van Gastel only escaped by jumping out of the way. The footage of the incident is included in the film.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Goedemorgen Nederland: (2003-04-16)" (2003)

Soundtrack:

Het Avontuur

If you don't want your children to grow into ignorant racists, don't show them this film!

"Nice movie for little children?" Allow me to totally disagree! I saw it for the first time today and I am still in shock! Thank god my children are too small to see it. Wat een racistische flauwekul! Here you have it, the whole standard racist lot: "good"Americans, "evil" Indians who kidnap children, always drunken Latin American "revolutionaries", Latin Americans who desperately "want" a Dutchman for their president and all whose sicknesses can be cured if they swallow mothballs! Not to mention that the evil Latin Americans (who have some Germans with "nazi accents" among them)force children into slavery (not a word of the West profiteering from child labour in Third World countries, that's too complicated for a little Dutch mind,of course!)... How much worse can it get?? If children in Holland grow up reading such books and watching such films,does it surprise anybody that they grow into Geert Wilderses?? Or that it is one of the most racist countries in Europe at present? The sad thing is that if I tell my Dutch friends about it, they won't even understand what I am talking about, as this is something they simply grew up with... I wanted to see this film because I liked "Minoes" so much. Apparently, Ms. Schmidt is not racist only when it comes to cats... Sad, really sad.