Bride Flight
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German title | Bride Flight |
Original title | Bride Flight |
Country of production | Netherlands |
original language | Dutch |
Publishing year | 2008 |
length | approx. 130 minutes |
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Director | Ben Sombogaart |
script | Marieke van der Pol |
production | Hanneke Niens , Anton Smit |
music | Jeannot Sanavia |
camera | Piotr Kukla |
cut | Herman P. Koerts |
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Bride Flight is a 2008 Dutch drama film directed by Ben Sombogaart. The film was a great success in the Netherlands.
action
The film is about Dutch emigrants in New Zealand after the Second World War . Ada, Esther, Marjorie and Frank meet on the KLM flight to New Zealand in 1953 . Ada and Frank fall in love on the flight, but the pregnant Ada then marries the father of her child Derk, whom she followed to New Zealand. He belongs to a strict Reformed church community and Ada is initially shocked by the difficult initial conditions. The fun-loving Marjorie is also getting married in New Zealand, but after a miscarriage she cannot have any more children. The glamorous Esther, who lost her relatives in World War II as a Jew and is the only survivor with remorse, has a child after an affair with Frank, but passes it on to Marjorie and instead pursues a career in the fashion industry. They agreed to keep silent about Esther's actual motherhood. Frank founds a winery. He stays in contact with Ada by letter and they meet again. Ada, who is asked by the religious congregation to break off her relationship, cannot make up her mind to start a new life with Frank because of her children. Marjorie returns to the Netherlands with her husband and child because she fears that her son Bobby will approach his mother Esther, who had felt remorse about giving up her role as a mother. The film ends with Frank's funeral service, at which the aged protagonists meet again. The opening scene to the film showed how Frank suffered a heart attack while driving his winery at the wheel of his car. At the funeral, Esther realizes with relief that Bobby has married a Jewish woman and that her granddaughter is Jewish .
Others
Screenwriter Marieke van der Pol also wrote the novel Bruidsvlucht in 2007 , on which the film is based. After a break of almost 28 years, Bride Flight was the first Dutch feature film in which Rutger Hauer appeared again. The film was also released in English in the US in 2011.
synchronization
Dorothee Muschter was responsible for the dialogue book and dialogue direction on behalf of Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke.
role | Actress | Voice actor |
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Frank |
Waldemar Torenstra (young)
Rutger Hauer (old) |
Dennis Schmidt-Foss (young)
Thomas Danneberg (old) |
Esther |
Anna Drijver (young)
Willeke van Ammelrooy (old) |
Maja Maneiro (young)
Beate Gerlach (old) |
Esther's assistant | Benjamin Farry | Asad Black |
Ada | Karina Smulders (young)
Pelpi Touw (old) |
Britta Steffenhagen (young)
Luise Lunow (old) |
Marjorie | Elise Schaap (young)
Petra Laseur (old) |
Katharina Spiering (young)
Katharina Lopinski (old) |
Derk | Micha Hulshof | Christoph Banks |
Web links
- Bride Flight in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homepage for the film