The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945. Dutch language only.
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
Popular Dutch story of a troubled boy who doesn’t get along with his mother while his sailor father is gone, and whose only help saving him from a career of crime is a schoolteacher.
The world famous Karthoum diamond, which is worth some 2 million extremely hard Dutch Guilders, is being transported to the Netherlands from Pretoria to be on display in a museum. Director Sondag feels the diamond isn’t getting enough protection and resorts to hiring a private detective to keep an eye on it. Unfortunately for him, some Italian mobsters are planning a jewel heist and make sure Sondag hires the bumbling and incompetent Sherlock Jones. In fact, Sherlock’s basset hound Watson has a better grasp of the situation than his master.
The film is regarded as the first Dutch sound film. On January 4 1934, the first ‘official’ Dutch sound film premiered in the presence of Prince Hendrik and prime-minister Colijn. The film paid homage to William of Orange and was presented as a historic document on the history of the Netherlands, highlighting the importance of prince William’s role during the Eighty Years war.
An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the nineteenth century is convinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people of whom he is in charge.