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Director:
Karim Traïdia
Writer:
Kees van der Hulst (writer)
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Release Date:
26 March 1998 (Netherlands) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
Polish deceived woman hides from pimps on a Dutch farm, and shares an intriguing romance with the farmer. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 6 wins & 4 nominations more
User Comments:
A beautiful time capsule more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Jaap Spijkers ... Henk Woldring
Monic Hendrickx ... Anna Krzyzanowska
Rudi Falkenhagen ... Pimp

Roef Ragas ... Son
Hakim Traidia ... Mailman
Soraya Traïdia ... Krysztyna
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Polish Bride (International: English title)
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Runtime:
89 min
Country:
Netherlands
Language:
Dutch | German | Polish
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: The main character drives a Volvo 240 sedan. When the go to the city, the car changes into a wagon. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Zomergasten: (#12.4)" (1999) more
Soundtrack:
Stabat Mater, Op. 53 (for Solo Voices, Mixed Choir and Orchestra) more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
A beautiful time capsule, 23 February 2007
10/10
Author: Hokusai

I love this movie, but for slightly different reasons than mentioned here. I'm from the Netherlands, and I grew up in a village in the eastern part of Friesland, which is very similar to the countryside of Groningen.

Halfway during the movie I noticed there were tears in my eyes. Oddly enough, it wasn't during an emotional scene between the main characters. It was a shot of the countryside of Groningen. The scenery wasn't extraordinarily beautiful or anything. Yet somehow, it had managed to perfectly capture the feeling the Dutch countryside gives me whenever I'm visiting my parents.

And then I realized it wasn't just the scenery, it also was the slow pace of the movie, the lack of dialogue between the two main characters, or the lack of much happening at all during most of the movie. The solitude of the farmer's life, the gentle moments between the main characters, the two of them being all alone in their own little world.

That one of the characters was a Polish woman on the run from pimps is just a McGuffin, this movie really isn't about that. It's about the feeling of living on the north-eastern Dutch countryside. If cinematography feels a little odd now and then, it's because it's completely focused on capturing the feeling of being on a Dutch farm, the story and it's characters being less important.

People are remembered. Exciting events are remembered. What movie is about remembering the feeling of living at a certain place at a certain time? OK, and what if we're not talking about someone's memories of growing up? Yeah, those kind of movies are rare, aren't they? This movie is one of them, and one of the best.

When people are going to watch this movie in a couple of decades, if they're still capable of investing themselves into a slow paced, technically inferior movie with an unexciting storyline compared to whatever they'll be used to by then, they're going to experience what it's like to live the the sobering, lonely yet somehow also magical and sometimes beautiful life of a Dutch farmer and his Polish bride.

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