NL 2024 | 127 Min. | OmU | DE International Opening Film
SCORE Bernhard Wicki Award
DGB Film Award
Twente – the center of the Dutch textile industry in the early 1960s. The young worker Johanna is confronted with the social conditions of her time. Her struggle for equality and professional development coincides with the economic reconstruction and the arrival of the first so-called „guest workers“ from southern Italy. The growing tensions between the long-established citizens of Twente and the newly arrived Italians lead to an uprising and unrest in 1961. Together with her new lover Francesco, Johanna finds herself at the heart of a storm... Set against the backdrop of the so-called „Spaghetti War“ (Spaghetti Orloog) of 1961 in the Twente region, veteran director Ben Sombogaart, crafts a captivating historical drama that explores emancipation and justice.
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Script: Jacqueline Epskamp
Photographer: Marc de Meijer
Editor: Herman P. Koerts
Music: Merlijn Snitker
Cast: Emma Josten, Barbara Sloesen, Holly Mae Brood, Mehdi Meskar, Joep Paddenburg, Peter Bolhuis
Production company: Nijenhuis & Co / Ingmar Menning, Johan Nijenhuis
World Sales: SKOOP Media
Ben Sombogaart
BEN SOMBOGAART (*1947 in Amsterdam) ist einer der profiliertesten niederländischen Regisseure und Drehbuchautoren. Seine besondere Fähigkeit, tiefgründige und emotionale Geschichten vor historischem Hintergrund zu erzählen, hat ihm in seiner Heimat Kultstatus beschert. Ben Sombogaart war bereits zweimal zu Gast beim Internationalen Filmfest Emden-Norderney.
Filmography: (Auswahl): Tegendraads (2024), Rafael(2018), De Storm (2009), In Oranje (2004), De Tweeling (2002)
Screenings
11.06.25 | 18:30 h| Hist. Kurtheater, Norderney
11.06.25 | 18:50 h| Festspielhaus am Wall
11.06.25 | 19:10 h| CineStar 2, Emden
14.06.25 | 13:50 h| Festspielhaus am Wall
