CHARACTER
(HOLLAND, 1997, 120 min., DUTCH)

SUN. 10/26, TUES. 10/28	10:15 PM 3:30 PM
10/26 MANN'S CHINESE 10/28 LAEMMLE'S MONICA THEATER #4

U.S. PREMIERE This tale opens with a bloodied young lawyer named Katadreuffe (Fedja van Huet) being arrested for the murder of an important and feared citizen, bailiff Dreverhaven (Jan Decleir), who also happens to be his father. Flashbacks give the accused's version of the events leading to the crime, beginning before his birth. Katadreuffe's mother, (Betty Schuurman), was Dreverhaven's maid and gave in to his advances only once before leaving his employ. After the fleeting liaison gave her a son, she refused Deverhaven's offers of marriage leaving Katadreuffe to endure a childhood made miserable by the taunts of his schoolmates and the embittered distance of the man he knew as his father... Van Diem's elegant, energetic direction produces an array of fine performances, especially van Huet's haunted, searching Katadreuffe and Declier's monolithic Dreverhaven. Pic's look is extremely impressive for its grand scale and vivid period textures; if the filmmakers were going for the feel of epic, the have succeeded admirably. -- Godfrey Cheshire, VARIETY DIR Mike Van Diem PROD Laurens Geels SCR Mike van Diem in association with Laurens Geels and Ruud van Megen DP Rogier Stoffers CAST Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huer, Betty Schuurman, Tama van den Dop, Victor Low, Hans Kesting

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