Rudolf van den Berg

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Rudolf van den Berg (born January 6, 1949 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch director and screenwriter . He became internationally known through the movies Bastille , The Sign , Death in the Cold Morning Light , Snapshots - Pictures of Memory or Tirza .

life and career

Rudolf van den Berg, born in Rotterdam in 1949, studied art history first , then political science in Amsterdam and received his MA in 1975. Between 1976 and 1979 he made a large number of documentaries. In 1982 he directed the best-known such as De plaats van de vreemdeling and Sal Santen rebel .

In 1984 he realized his first own cinema production with the drama Bastille with the actors Derek de Lint , Geert de Jong and Evelyne Dress under the production of George Sluizer , for which he also wrote the screenplay. For Bastille , van den Berg won the first of his three Golden Calves to date as best director at the Dutch Film Festival .

At the beginning of the 1990s he filmed the character, an adventure film with the cast of Monique van de Ven , Esmée de la Bretonière and Kenneth Herdigein . In 1996, the remake was followed by the British-Dutch-German co-production Tod im kalten Morgenlicht with the international cast of actors such as Richard E. Grant , Lynsey Baxter , Perdita Weeks and Simon Cadell, based on a literature by the author Friedrich Dürrenmatt . At the end of the 1990s he also worked as a director for television, including the television series Oud geld .

In 2002 Burt Reynolds , Julie Christie and Carmen Chaplin made the romantic love film Snapshots - Pictures of Memory . It was not until eight years later in 2010 that he continued his career in the cinema with the award-winning directorial work on the drama Tirza . At the Dutch Film Festival , the film won in the categories of best director and best editing. Sylvia Hoeks , Abbey Hoes and Johanna ter Steege played the leading roles . In 2012 Rudolf van den Berg filmed the war drama Süskind with Katja Herbers , Tygo Gernandt and Karl Markovics .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

As a director

  • 1982: De plaats van de vreemdeling (documentary)
  • 1982: Sal Santen rebel (documentary)
  • 1984: Bastille
  • 1985: Stranger at Home (documentary)
  • 1987: Zoeken naar Eileen
  • 1989: De avonden
  • 1992: The Sign (De Johnsons)
  • 1996: Death in the Cold Light of Day (The Cold Light of Day)
  • 1997: For My Baby
  • 1998: De keerzijde (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1999: Oud geld (TV series, 4 episodes)
  • 2002: Snapshots - Pictures of Memory (Snapshots)
  • 2010: Tirza
  • 2012: Süskind
  • 2012: Hollandse Meesters in de 21e eeuw (short documentary film)
  • 2014: Hamartía: More or Less Louis van Gasteren (documentary)
  • 2016: A Real Vermeer

As a screenwriter

  • 1984: Bastille
  • 1985: Stranger at Home (documentary)
  • 1987: Zoeken naar Eileen
  • 1989: De avonden
  • 1997: For My Baby
  • 2002: Snapshots - Pictures of Memory (Snapshots)
  • 2010: Tirza
  • 2012: Süskind

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf van den Berg. In: Dutch Film. , Government Pub. Office, 1987, p. 136
  2. ↑ Rudolf van den Berg. In: Janet Maslin: THE SCREEN: 'BASTILLE,' BY RUDOLF VAN DEN BERG. , The New York Times, 1985
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Rudolf van den
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam , Netherlands