Van God Los (2003)

Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.

Director:

Pieter Kuijpers

Writers:

Pieter Kuijpers, Paul Jan Nelissen

Stars:

Egbert Jan Weeber, Tygo Gernandt, Angela Schijf

7 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Egbert Jan Weeber	...	Stan Meijer
Tygo Gernandt	...	Maikel Verheije
Angela Schijf	...	Anna Sprengers
Mads Wittermans	...	Sef
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Selma Avkapan	...	Granddaughter of Osman
Tamer Avkapan	...	Nadir
Marnie Blok	...	Joke
Bacha Chilaia	...	Frank
Loek Ewalds	...	Police officer 1
Mark Kleuskens	...	Police Officer 2
Cemil Kurtgözu	...	Suleyman
Pim Lambeau	...	Mevr. van de Velde
Frits Lambrechts	...	Dhr. van de Velde
Johnny Lion	...	Johan Schreurs
Peter Post	...	East-European man

Storyline

Stan Meijer is by nature a good boy, but grows up frustrated in Venlo, a boring provincial town in the Catholic Dutch South, feeling neglected by his gold-digger mother who remarried a dentist and abandoned by his biological father, a friendly macho trucker who stood the pre-teen up for reasons unknown when he planned to move in with him, never to be heard off until reading dad's obituary. So instead of joining the minor socialite life, Stan hooks up with junkies Maikel (dialect pronunciation-spelling for Michael) Verheije, a hot-head small criminal, and Sef, his lieutenant, who drag him along in small crime as an adolescent. When the bumbling trio gets arrested red-handed, the police sends both ruffians to jail but releases Stan as implausible suspect. He's too nice to accept when Maikel's girl-friend offers herself to him, and on Mikail's release joins him in a hold-up which goes bad, as the nervous amateurs needlessly kill the victim, a shopkeeper and secret weed-grower, rather ...

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Plot Keywords:

dutch | gang | boy | money | small town | 

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Taglines:

Keihard En Confronterend (Rock Hard and In Your Face)

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Genres:

Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch Turkish

Release Date:

24 April 2003 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

Godforsaken!

Filming Locations:

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Box Office

Budget:

€1,027,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

BNN TV, IDTV Film, Rinkel Film & TV Productions BV

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When Maikel walks to the Turkish coffee shop, just before he starts shooting, a shadow of a matte box is visible in the lower left corner.

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Connections

Featured in Allemaal film: Betere tijden (2007)

User Reviews

OK, sorry about all the stage actors

To start off; i liked this film, particularly Tygo Gernandt's acting was plainly brilliant. The sorry thing about dutch films is, that mainly stage actors appear in dutch productions. Obviosously dutch directors find it very difficult to direct acclaimed theater actors, let alone telling them that stage acting(e.g. articulation and exaggerated physical expression) is a big no-no film acting. The southern dutch accent is very well performed by Tygo en Egbert, however most of the other actors 'slip back' to a pathetic attempt, particularly the ( here I go again) stage actors. The directing and the editing of this movie were very undutch and therefor very strong, the acting however........ three great actors can never compensate 10 mediocre to sloppy actors. Conclusion: A more dedicated and disciplined director combined with a less conservative casting director could have lifted this flick to a higher level and in the process would have put dutch film-making on the map.