Format:
[DVD] (82 Min.)
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s/w
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dolby digital 2.0
Series Statement:
Kroniek van de vlaamse Film 1955-1990
Uniform Title:
Meeuwen sterven in de haven
Content:
In hindsight, the expressionistic collaborative feature "Seagulls are Dying in the Harbor" by Flemish filmmakers Roland Verhavert, Ivo Michiels, and Rik Kuypers proves especially suited as a milestone film for Belgian national cinema, carrying the international distinction as the country's first feature film to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in postwar Antwerp, the film evokes the profound melancholy and bittersweet loss of innocence of René Clément's "Forbidden Games" in its depiction of the friendship between a pair of unlikely kindred spirits trying to make sense of their upended (and uprooted) lives in the forbidding, and increasingly alien urban landscape of postwar Belgium ... [www.filmref.com]
Note:
mehrsprachige Originalfassung / UT: engl. ; franz. ; niederländ.
Language:
Undetermined
Keywords:
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