Leak 2000 (2000)

Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced ... See full summary »

Director:

Jean van de Velde

Writers:

Simon de Waal, Jan van Daalen (novel)

Stars:

Cas Jansen, Ricky Koole, Thomas Acda

6 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Cas Jansen	...	Eddy
Ricky Koole	...	Ria
Thomas Acda	...	Franco
Victor Löw	...	Jack
Gijs Scholten van Aschat	...	Ferdinand de Wit
Lou Landré	...	politiechef Berg
Jacob Derwig	...	Patrick
Ton Kas	...	Haveman
Jacqueline Blom	...	Gynaecologe
Loes Wouterson	...	Wachtcommandant
Ad Knippels	...	Agent Erik
Mohammed Azaay	...	Agent Suat (as Mohammed Azzay)
Kees Boot	...	Agent Kees
Rob Bartels	...	Agent
Ben Ramakers	...	Agent Henk

Storyline

Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.

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Plot Keywords:

barefoot woman | pubic hair | sex scene | bare chested male | male nudity | 

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Taglines:

EERLIJK DUURT HET KORTST

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in Allemaal film: Betere tijden (2007)

User Reviews

Another Film from Flatland

I live in Amsterdam, and it's interesting to read all the critical Dutch comments on this film and on Dutch Film in general. The camera-work, as usual, was OK here, but I couldn't get involved in the plot, if that's the right word for the sequence of scenes. I felt as though I was standing outside and watching the film go by. Not even the loud music and some fast editing could draw me in. Why?

I have a theory. Holland is 2-dimensional. Flat. Images anywhere are flat, as Mondriaan reminded us, but people who live in 3 dimensions build narratives, with flat images, in a 3-dimensional space or rather, in a 4-dimensional spacetime. They see images in a sort of deeper landscape, with a sense, an idea, of other things in the foreground and background – the images have depth, 'meaning', which can be organized in a complicated pattern and dynamic, a plot. The Dutch simply can't do this, and their attempts to construct stories in 3 dimensions always seem amateurish, childish. They can't build a story into which you can enter. Some people - even some Dutch people - say: 'they have no imagination'.

They make some great documentaries, and they have some good cameramen and women. But they can't do fiction, which articulates images in the play of imagination. Documentary makers, even some wayward filmmakers like Paul Verhoeven, can turn this around and make a virtue of the problem. They can build a collage of images into something like a question, or an ironical game, leaving the third dimension, the meaning or depth, radically open in ways that people living in 3 dimensions find very difficult to do, because 'normal' people are always themselves caught up in the play of meaning from the outset, unable to stand radically outside it.

I guess the best thing would be for the Flatlanders to recognize their strengths and their limitations, and stop trying to make 'normal' films like this one. But to do this would require a lot of imagination….

Details

Official Sites:

Lek Film

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch

Release Date:

27 April 2000 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

Leak

Filming Locations:

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Company Credits

Production Co:

Verenigde Arbeiders Radio Amateurs (VARA), M&B FILM BV

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1