Summer Heat (2008)

14 months after loosing his partner while making a UNICEF documentary in Afghanistan, Dutch photographer Bob Griffioen's benefactor Federico Federici has landed him a National Geographic ... See full summary »

Director:

Monique van de Ven

Writers:

Jan Wolkers (novel), Edwin de Vries (screenplay)

Stars:

Sophie Hilbrand, Waldemar Torenstra, Jeroen Willems

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sophie Hilbrand	...	Kathleen
Waldemar Torenstra	...	Bob Griffioen
Jeroen Willems	...	Federico Federici
Johan Leysen	...	Mummie
Cees Geel	...	de Lange
Jelka van Houten	...	Jara
Jochum ten Haaf	...	Vogelwachter
Gijs Naber	...	Richard
Giam Kwee	...	Caron
André Arend van de Noord	...	Dennis (as André Arend van Noord)
Bert Luppes	...	Boer
Rik van de Westelaken	...	Nieuwslezer
Matteo van der Grijn	...	Chauffeur
Peter van Bokhorst	...	Klaas
Sarah Jonker	...	Barmeisje #1

Storyline

14 months after loosing his partner while making a UNICEF documentary in Afghanistan, Dutch photographer Bob Griffioen's benefactor Federico Federici has landed him a National Geographic assignment on the Wadden island Texel. Shooting wildlife there, Bob meets hedonistic waitress-student Kathleen, who practices nudism on the beach. Alas, her boss and sugar-daddy 'the Mummy' is involved in major drug trade. Both lovers are soon dragged into it, without knowing if they even can trust each-other.

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Plot Keywords:

photographer | island | beach | kiss | seal the animal | 

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Genres:

Drama | Romance | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch

Release Date:

20 March 2008 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

Nyári hőség

Filming Locations:

Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$3,320,936

Company Credits

Production Co:

RTL Entertainment

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Actors Sophie Hilbrand and Waldemar Torenstra are a couple in real life.

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Goofs

The bird of prey, which is being photographed in the dunes is not a native bird for the Netherlands, but a (trained, captive) American buzzard.

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Connections

Referenced in Spuiten en slikken: Episode #6.1 (2008)

User Reviews

not worth watching

This movie is just like every other dutch movie, so if you enjoy movies such as turks fruit and de kleine blonde dood. then you might be okay with this one (even though those two have much better stories and actors) Zomerhitte starts strong enough, but even that one good scene ends up having nothing to do with the storyline. There's a lot of nudity (but me and others just could not find that girl attractive), the dialog is laughable (as we did a lot to the annoyance of other movie watchers), and some of the scenes are so completely random that this is more of an unintentional comedy than anything else (like a random scene in which an owl rips somebody's eye out...it has nothing to do with anything and is only referenced once later in a sentence saying "did you hear what happened...I was there"). the only reason I gave it a 2 is because some of the places they are at look nice...that's it. And the reason I saw it was because we went to the sneak preview (here in Holland we have a strange system regarding sneak previews, you pay less money then for a regular movie and you don't know what movie it is that you will be watching. All you know is that it's a new movie that's not yet in the theaters). My advice is to stay far away from this film, if you really want to see a good dutch movie watch temmink or zwartboek.