De vliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)

The legend of the "Flying Dutchman," a sailor who challenged God and was doomed to roam the seven seas on a silent, spooky vessel which could fly through the air, has its origins in the 16th century, when Holland was a wealthy naval superpower. This film uses the title of the legend, but stays with its hero, a sailor who is caught seducing a farmer's wife and finishes his life in a cesspit, only for its first sequence. The rest of the film focuses on his bastard son, acquainted with the legend through an Italian minstrel who, out of pity for the boy, tells him his father is still alive. Believing this to be true, the boy goes out to look for his father, for his mystical boat and the magic sea...