Movies: Gerard Thoolen

  • 1991
    How to Survive a Broken Heart

    How to Survive a Broken Heart (1991)

    How to Survive a Broken Heart

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    D.C. has been abandoned by his girlfriend Nola, wants to go to Hollywood and participates in 'chicken races' out of desperation and lack of money; a perilous event in which one travels a certain distance on the road by car without stopping....

    How to Survive a Broken Heart
  • 1997
    Het Werkteater 1970-1985

    Het Werkteater 1970-1985 (1997)

    Het Werkteater 1970-1985

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    Documentary about the Dutch theatregroup the Werktheater. The aim of the company was to create socially relevant theater by means of cooperative processes and improvisation. They often played their performances on location, such as in hospitals, pris...

    Het Werkteater 1970-1985
  • 1987
    Count Your Blessings

    Count Your Blessings (1987)

    Count Your Blessings

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    Alternating comedy and drama this portrait of different families on three floors in an Amsterdam building where the stairs symbolizes the suffering of known urban living alongside each other. Upstairs live two students, including the failed and unemp...

    Count Your Blessings
  • 1982
    The Hes Case

    The Hes Case (1982)

    The Hes Case

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    Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her co...

    The Hes Case
  • 1979
    In for Treatment

    In for Treatment (1979)

    In for Treatment

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    An unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation....

    In for Treatment
  • 1990
    Een vreemde liefde

    Een vreemde liefde (1990)

    Een vreemde liefde

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    A lonely man tossed by life and hectored by his landlady finds happiness only with an alley cat....

    Een vreemde liefde
  • 1992
    The Sunday Child

    The Sunday Child (1992)

    The Sunday Child

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    The Sunday Child
  • 1991
    Not Mozart: WAM! Limited

    Not Mozart: WAM! Limited (1991)

    Not Mozart: WAM! Limited

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    Composer Misha Mengelberg collaborates with director Anthony Garner on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart....

    Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
  • 1992
    De Schoorsteenveger

    De Schoorsteenveger (1992)

    De Schoorsteenveger

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    A chimney sweep’s daredevil antics are meant to keep a young woman from jumping off the roof. But does she really want to jump? Or does he maybe? A street sweeper is watching and passes the hat round for our hero. Or is he part of the act too?...

    De Schoorsteenveger
  • 1983
    The Illusionist

    The Illusionist (1983)

    The Illusionist

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    Two brothers end up separated for one of them has mental issues. Meanwhile one of the two follows his dream in becoming a magician....

    The Illusionist
  • 1976
    Toestanden

    Toestanden (1976)

    Toestanden

    01976HD

    "Conditions" - The improvisation-based performance was inspired by psychiatrists such as RD Laing (Family and Madness) and J. Foudraine (Who is of wood). The Werkteater played this performance 'in the den of the lion': in psychiatric institutions for...

    Toestanden