Most documentaries about animals tell you have they live and reproduce. In this one by the great Bert Haantsra you witness a kind of soap-episode. He gives names to the monkeys and he follows them for a long period. Although the chimps live in a zoo, you get a great inside look on how these animals behave and interact with each other. The climax of the film is when Haanstra places a fake lion to see how the chimps react.
Reviews
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Ciske de Rat
(1955)
A hard life for a little boy
31 May 2002
The movie is about a boy who lives a difficult life during the crisis years in the early '30. His father who he loves most is a sailor and his stepmother is a dreadful woman. They call hem `the Rat' and he has only one real friend, his teacher. After killing his stepmother he is send to jail but there things turn around.
The First and best Dutch Nouvelle Vaque movie ever made.
28 January 2000
This movie, with his incredible long title, is one of the first movies made by the duo Wim and Pim. Later they made Bleu movie which is still one of the biggest box-office hits ever made in the Netherlands. The movie is about a guy in Amsterdam during the roaring sixties who has just returned from Paris. There are several demonstration going one and he just goes alone with it but he doesn't know what he is against. Especially that aspect of the movie is intriguing because we now know that most of the ideals of the sixties are gone and not believed in by the same people who screamed and yelled for peace love and understanding in that time.
Alleman
(1963)
Best dutch documentary about the pre-flower-power-era
22 January 2000
This documentary from the famous Bert Haanstra (Glas) shows the Netherlands before the free sex drugs and rock and roll. Everthing is still simple, quiet and easy the oversee. But that is the reason why this film is so beautiful.
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