Helmer (Jeroen Willems) is a farmer and gay and can only stand by it when he accommodates his sick father (Henri Garcin) in an attic room. A film adaptation of the novel of the same name “Boven is het stil” by Gerbrand Bakker.

2013 | Feature film | NL/D | 93 min.
Co-production
Circe Films/NL, N279 Entertainment/NL, COIN FILM
World premiere Berlinale/Panorama Special 2013
Sales Agent Films Distribution
German distribution Edition Salzgeber
German cinema release 13. Juni 2013
Awards Nederlands FF / Best Editing

 

Cast

Jeroen Willems
Henri Garcin
Martijn Lakemeier
Wim Opbrouck

TEAM

Script / directing Nanouk Leopold, based on the novel „Boven is het stil“ by Gerbrand Bakker
DoP Frank van den Eeden
Sound Design Andreas Hildebrandt
Production design Elsje de Bruijn
Costume Ute Paffendorf, Manon Blom
Editing Katharina Wartena
Music Paul M. van Brugge
Commissiong Editor Joost de Wolf, Pita de Leeuw /VPRO, Inge Classen, Ingrid Granz / ZDF/3sat
Producer Stienette Bosklopper/Circe Films, Els Vandevorst/N279 Entert.



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