Fons Rademakers

Fons Rademakers (1986)

Fons Rademakers (born September 5, 1920 in Roosendaal , † February 22, 2007 in Geneva ) was a Dutch film director and actor .

Live and act

Rademakers, initially assistant director in Switzerland (for Jacques Feyder's film production A woman disappears ) and actor in Amsterdam, learned his profession in the 1950s a. a. with Vittorio De Sica and Jean Renoir . As a director, he made his debut in 1958 with The Village on the River (Dorp aan de rivier) , for which he was the first Dutch film director to be nominated for an Oscar. In 1961 Rademakers won a Silver Bear with Makkers, staakt uw wild geraas at the 1961 Berlinale . 1987 followed the Oscar for The stop (De Aanslag) based on the novel The Assassination of Harry Mulisch . In 1987, the film also won the Golden Globe Award , also in the Best Foreign Language Film category . In 1989 Rademakers made his last film The Rosegarden , a less successful international production. With that he ended his career and retired to Italy with his wife Lili. Most recently he lived in France.

Rademakers died of emphysema in a Geneva hospital .

Filmography

• 1954: Secret File, USA
• 1958: The village on the river ( Dorp aan de rivier ) - Screenplay: Hugo Claus
• 1960: If you don't care about it ( Makkers, staakt uw wild geraas ) ( Silberner Bär Berlin 1961)
• 1961: The knife ( Het mes )
• 1963: As twee druppels water (based on the book De donkere kamer van Damokles by Willem Frederik Hermans )
• 1966: Fire on the skin ( De dans van de reiger )
• 1971: Mira (based on the book De teloorgang van de waterhoek by Stijn Streuvels )
• 1973: CATS ( Because of the cats )
• 1976: Max Havelaar (based on the book of the same name by Multatuli )
• 1979: Mijn vriend
• 1986: The attack - based on the novel The Assassination by Harry Mulisch
• 1989: The rose garden

Web links

• Fons Rademakers in the Internet Movie Database (English)