Paul Cammermans
Gezin van paemel, het (Het gezin van Paemel)
Edition 1987
90'
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1986
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Dutch
Director:
Paul Cammermans
Composer:
Daniel Schnell
With:
Frank Aendenboom, Camilia Blereau, Chris Boni, Marijke Pinoy, Jan Decleir
Flanders' countryside in Belgium's early decades didn't belong to the hard-working farmers, like patriarch Van Paemel, who would rather die then consider any alternative to knowing his place and responding to problems like Animal farm's donkey, toiling even harder till it kills him anyhow. He rules his family expecting similar servitude, but cruel fate sees to it that his gentle son Desiré has a terrible, ill-compensated, never trialled life-long crippling rifle-accident, reducing the good, now unproductive boy to dreaming about emigration to America in never-ending pain, at the idle hands of the hunting party hosted by the baron who owns everything, and takes like his ruling class a very dim view at the demands, spearheaded by the young Socialist party, of the less docile new generation, whose protests are put down violently by gendarmes (paramiltary police)...
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Credits
Director
Paul Cammermans
Composer
Daniel Schnell
With
Frank Aendenboom, Camilia Blereau, Chris Boni, Marijke Pinoy, Jan Decleir
Scenario
Paul Cammermans, Jan Blokker
Director of Photography
Lex Wertwijn
Editor
Henri Erismann
Producer
Jan van Raemdonck
More information
Dialogue
Dutch
Countries of production
Belgium
Screenplay based on
"Het gezin van Paemel" (Cyriel Buysse)
Year
1986