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Ger Poppelaars

Missing Link

Director Ger Poppelaars Composer Alain Van Zeveren Cast Johan Leysen, Nick van Buiten, Tamar van den Dop, Johan Leysen
Edition 1999
88' - 1999 - Comedy, Family - Dialogue: Dutch
This is the story of the clever 11-year old Rick who lives with his mother Lydia in a small town in The Netherlands. The year is 1955. Rick has never seen his father. He was an RAF pilot and was shot down in the war. In Rick's opinion, his mother’s new lover Jef, a nice but rather ostentatious tobacconist, cannot hope to match his neat hero father, let alone replace him. Rick has come under the spell of Africa. His mother has given him an old atlas in an attempt to quench his thirst for knowledge. In it he finds a genealogical tree showing the descent of the human species with the annotation “missing link” made in ink by a previous owner. When Rick hears that an expedition, with the mission to search for the missing link, will set out from Brussels for Congo, he tries to contact the leader of the expedition, because he is convinced that they will search in the wrong place.

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Credits

Directors

Ger Poppelaars

Composers

Alain Van Zeveren

Cast

Johan Leysen, Nick van Buiten, Tamar van den Dop, Johan Leysen

Scenario

Ger Poppelaars, Timo Veltkamp

Director of Photography

Walter van den Ende

Editors

Mario Steenbergen

Producers

Frank Bak, René Huybrechtse

More info

Dialogue

Dutch

Countries of production

Belgium

Year

1999