Bride flight [videorecording] / IDTV Film presenteert in coproductie met Samsa Films en de NCRV ; met bijdragen van Suppletieregeling, Filminvesteringen Nederland, CoBO-Fonds, Nederlands Fonds voor de Film, Film Fund Luxembourg, Chios Media B.V., ein film van Ben Sombogaart ; producenten, Anton Smit, Hanneke Niens ; scenario, Marieke van der Pol ; regie, Ben Sombogaart.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: MBFHE-023 | Music Box FilmsLanguage: Dutch Original language: Dutch Subtitle language: English Publication details: Chicago, IL : Music Box Films, c2011.Description: 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits: - Director of photography, Piotr Kukla ; editor, Herman P. Koerts ; music, Jeannot Sanavia.
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Main Library | DVD | WORLD Bride fl | Available | 33111006960237 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
At the time of its production and release, Bride Flight reportedly checked in as one of the most lavish and expensive Dutch-language features ever made. The title of this epic tale refers, quite literally, to a period airplane flight transporting new brides from Holland to New Zealand, where they plan to meet their intendeds. Karina Smulders, Elise Schaap, Anna Drijver star, respectively, as quiet and backward yet sensual farm girl Ada; über-content homemaker-to-be Marjorie; and highly vocal, self-confident, Jewish fashion designer Esther. As the tale opens, it is the mid-'50s; the three women share the same flight, and instantly forge a fast friendship, thanks in no small part to their shared amorous advances from Frank (Waldemar Torenstra), a cowboy-cum-adventurer also on the plane. Upon their arrival, Frank and Ada fall deeply in love, but Ada's marriage to Derk (Micha Hulshof), a devout Christian who lives with her in a converted World War II bunker, severely complicates this. Meanwhile, Esther and Marjorie encounter their own problems; one winds up pregnant by an unknown progenitor, while the other discovers her own infertility. After following these stories for a time, the tale flashes forward to the present day, where the women re-encounter one another at the funeral of Frank (played in middle age by Rutger Hauer). Problems arise when Esther witnesses Marjorie (Petra Laseur) accompanying her son, Bob (Marc Klein Essink) -- thus underscoring the film's thematic meditation on the unshakable connection between present and past. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Bonus features: making-of featurette; screenwriter interview; theatrical trailer.
Videodisc release of the 2008 motion picture.
Director of photography, Piotr Kukla ; editor, Herman P. Koerts ; music, Jeannot Sanavia.
Karina Smulders, Pleuni Touw, Anna Drijver, Willeka van Ammelrooy, Elise Schaap, Petra Laseur, Waldemar Torenstra, Rutger Hauer.
A lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, Marjorie, and Esther become fast friends during the long flight taking them to their waiting husbands. Upon arrival, they part ways to start their new lives, but their paths continue to cross with chance meetings resulting in adultery, betrayal, and near tragedy leading up to a reunion 50 years later.
Rating: R; a strong sex scene and some graphic nudity.
DVD; widescreen (2.35:1) ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Dutch dialogue; English subtitles.