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7.2/10   140 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Arthur Japin (writer)
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Release Date:
25 October 2001 (Netherlands) more
Plot:
A sea faring father, a man living on the edge of mental sanity, periodically sees his young son. During the visits... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 1 nomination more
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Cast

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Ramsey Nasr ... Memed
Dirk Roofthooft ... The Father
Willem Voogd ... The Boy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Amiran Amiranashvili ... Achmed / Hadas
Antje de Boeck ... Josse
Geert Hunaerts ... Arend
Nodar Mgaloblishvili ... Abdul Abdurduran
Nato Murvanidze ... Illeknoer
Philip van den Boogaard ... Olle
Linda van Dyck ... Zoë
Jack Wouterse ... IJsbrand
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Runtime:
Argentina:112 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
beautiful stories with a beautiful background, 26 February 2005
8/10
Author: Jeroen Besseling (rudebuzztard@hotmail.com) from Heemskerk, Holland

I found it strange to see that the only comment on this (dutch) movie is from someone from Sweden :P. So I thought it would be nice to add some thoughts about this myself.

I liked this movie very much because of the different scenes of the stories. The movie basically consists out of 3 stories which are set in Arabia, Africa and Holland. I loved the first and last story, the second story didn't seem to have a lot of dramatic tension in it, or any tension at all.

The first story is about choosing between loyalty and the one you love, and was very tragic, it made me cry. It took place in a small Islamic village somewhere in the middle east and has a very beautiful atmosphere and was even a bit funny from time to time.

The second story was stupid I think, I cannot think of any message in it or something. Except maybe that it sucks to live alone in the African desert...

The third story is really dramatic and is about a woman doomed to live in misery because she rejects the love of a man close to her and instead waits for a mysterious sailor she met 7 years ago and once said he would take her with him..

Unfortunately there are some more downsides to the movie except the poor second story. They mixed actors from Belgium and Holland and that irritates me sometimes. The little boy in the story is dutch, his father has a Belgian accent. I think it was very stupid of the director to do, because it doesn't make their relationship credible. But that's just a little thing, 8/10

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