Dood Water

Dood Water is a 1934 Dutch drama film directed by Gerard Rutten.

Dood Water
Directed byGerard Rutten
Written bySimon Koster, Gerard Rutten
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
26 October 1934
Running time
106 minutes
CountryNetherlands
LanguageDutch

Cast

  • Jan Musch ... Willem de Geus
  • Theo de Maal ... Jaap de Meeuw (as Teo de Maal)
  • Betsy Ranucci-Beckman ... Aaf de Meeuw
  • Arnold Marlé... Dirk Brak
  • Max Croiset ... Jan Brak
  • Helga Gogh ... Maartje Brak
  • Johan Schilthuyzen
  • Jules Verstraete

Reception

Writing for The Spectator, Graham Greene praised the film's documentary prologue as "an exciting piece of pure cinema", and commented that the story which follows "has some of the magnificent drive one felt behind the classic Russian films, behind Earth and The General Line: no tiresome 'message', but a belief in the importance of a human activity truthfully reported". Greene also noted, however, that "the photography is uneven: at moments it is painfully 'arty', deliberately out of focus".[1]

References

  1. Greene, Graham (6 September 1935). "Dood Wasser/Me and Marlborough". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 18–19. ISBN 0192812866.)
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