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Pallieter (1975)

Pallieter (1975)

Drama Romance
Release Date: 1975, December 12
Directors: Roland Verhavert
Countries: Netherlands
Cast: Jan Decleir, Herbert Flack, Idwig Stephane, Alice Toen, Sylvia de Leur, Manu Verreth, Eddie Brugman, Jan Reusens, Jacqueline Rommerts, Joris Diels, Rudi Van Vlaenderen

Overview:

In this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat'-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier who after recovering from a life-threatening disease changes his life completely and his name to the self-invented Pallieter. He moves in with Charlote, a naive, caring relative in the country, where he starts frolicking, no longer caring for image, career or possessions, but concentrates on enjoying life -such as a draftee relative's Brueghelian wedding- and finds love with Marieke. A dark story-line however is when projected work on the river in the name of economical progress threatens the rural landscape they have fallen in love with...