Annette Apon

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Annette Apon (2016)

Annette Apon (born May 25, 1949 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch director and screenwriter .

biography

Annette Apon, daughter of the actress Betty Kapsenberg (1909–1997) and the actor Jan Apon (1907–1993), attended the Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie in Amsterdam. In 1968 she founded the film magazine Skrien together with fellow students and in 1974 co-initiated the left-wing film collective Amsterdams Stadsjournaal . In 1982 she made her debut with her full-length film The Waves , the first adaptation of a story by Virginia Woolf by a Dutch director. The film ran on 1982 at the Berlinale in a special screening in competition. The following year she won the jury award at the Dutch Film Festival for her film Giovanni . In 1990 her film Crocodiles in Amsterdam was shown in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival.

By 2019 Apon made more than 20 films and directed plays. Her documentaries about the Dutch actress Fien de la Mar (Ik wil gelukkig zijn ) and the German-Dutch double agent Leonie Brandt (Leonie, actrice en spionne ) have recently appeared .

Movies

  • Eigen haard is goud waard (1973)
  • Overloop is sloop (1974, short film)
  • Van brood alleen kan een mens niet leven (1975)
  • Een schijntje vrijheid (1976)
  • Het bosplan (1978)
  • Politiewerk (1979)
  • Kakafonische notities (1980)
  • The Waves (Golven ) (1982)
  • Giovanni (1983)
  • Projekties (1984, short film)
  • Ornithopter (1985)
  • Reis zonder einde (1988)
  • Crocodiles in Amsterdam (Crocodiles in Amsterdam) (1990)
  • Naarden Vesting (1993)
  • Wakers en dromers (1994, short film)
  • Een winter in Zuiderwoude (1994, short film - documentary)
  • Het is de schraapzucht, gentlemen (1996, TV)
  • De man met de hond (1999)
  • Droom en daad / Dream and Deed (2012, documentation)
  • Het uur van de wolf (2013, documentary series, episode Henriette Roland Holst: Droom en daad )
  • Ik wil gelukkig zijn (2016, documentation)
  • Leonie, actrice en spionne (2020, documentation)

Web links

Commons : Annette Apon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annette Apon. In: - TheaterEncyclopedie. Retrieved February 15, 2020 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ Jan Apon. In: - TheaterEncyclopedie. Retrieved February 15, 2020 (Dutch).
  3. ^ The Waves | The waves. In: berlinale.de. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Annette Apon. In: iffr.com. January 14, 2020, accessed on February 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Crocodiles in Amsterdam | Crocodiles In Amsterdam | Crocodiles in Amsterdam. In: berlinale.de. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Apon, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam