Frank Groothof

King of the Road (2019)

A racist truckdriver gets a new muslim colleague after his previous co-driver was beat up by two Moroccan men. ...

Kees de Jongen (2012)

This is a stage registration of the musical theatre play 'Kees de Jongen' by Dutch actor Frank Groothof and the Avant-garde music band De Kift. The play is based on the novel with the same title by Theo Thijssen about the rich imagination of an ordinary bo ...

The Blue Bus (2010)

Detective Wikkobus suffers from 'the blues'. After fifty-five years of letting other people dictate his life, without having taken any initiative, only hanging around the blues café, drinking whiskey and searching for things that don't matter anyway, he h ...

Sinterklaas in Sesamstraat 2002: Een bijzonder geschenk (2002)

Het Werkteater 1970-1985 (1997)

Documentary about the Dutch theatregroup the Werktheater. The aim of the company was to create socially relevant theater by means of cooperative processes and improvisation. They often played their performances on location, such as in hospitals, prisons, h ...

The Homecoming of Ulysses (1996)

Frank Groothof tells and sings the story of Ulysses' homecoming. He is accompanied musically by the saxphone ensemble Sax et Plus. The Dutch peninsula of Schiermonnikoog forms the backdrop for the story, in which Groothof himself plays almost all carachter ...

De Schoorsteenveger (1992)

A chimney sweep's daredevil antics are meant to keep a young woman from jumping off the roof. But does she really want to jump? Or does he maybe? A street sweeper is watching and passes the hat round for our hero. Or is he part of the act too? ...

Precious (1991)

A 17 year old girl runs away form home and finds shelter with a 50 year old man with a psychiatric past. ...

The Story of Kees (1989)

This TV-film is based on a single play written by Willem Wilmink. Life in the war years through the innocent eyes of a child. Kees is ten years old and the Second World War seems strange to him. He becomes sick with fear and is sent to the countryside wher ...

Gebroed (1986)

Television recording of the theatre play 'Gebroed' by the Werkteater from 1983. The play, written and performed by Frank and René Groothof, is about their childhood together, their relationship to each other and to their parents, their conflicts, but also ...

Giovanni (1983)

The successful photographer Diane is in Rome for a photo assignment, but seems mostly to be looking for Giovanni, an old acquaintance and probably a lover. Against the backdrop of the political situation, which is strained due to the attacks by the Red Bri ...

A Hot Summer Night (1982)

A husband, half of an entertainment duo, the Nellicos, tells his wife, who is the other half of the duo, that he has another woman. But they cannot discuss this as he tells her only just before they are due to perform in front of a large audience. ...

Bosch en Lucht (1981)

Video registration of the German version of the performance 'Bosch en Lucht' by the Dutch theatre group 'het Werkteater'. 'Bosch en Lucht' was a performance about mentally handicapped children. ...

Hello Fellow Man (1980)

TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'Het Werkteater'. Three ladies of high society invite homeless people, homeless people and junks to spend a pleasant evening with them, in order to promote communication and integration. ...

In for Treatment (1979)

An unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation. ...

Toestanden (1976)

"Conditions" - The improvisation-based performance was inspired by psychiatrists such as RD Laing (Family and Madness) and J. Foudraine (Who is of wood). The Werkteater played this performance 'in the den of the lion': in psychiatric institutions for patie ...

Kattengat 10 (1975)

Documentairy about the progressive theatre group 'Het Werkteater' at their home base on Kattengat 10 in Amsterdam. ...

Kees de Jongen (2012)

This is a stage registration of the musical theatre play 'Kees de Jongen' by Dutch actor Frank Groothof and the Avant-garde music band De Kift. The play is based on the novel with the same title by Theo Thijssen about the rich imagination of an ordinary bo ...

The Homecoming of Ulysses (1996)

Frank Groothof tells and sings the story of Ulysses' homecoming. He is accompanied musically by the saxphone ensemble Sax et Plus. The Dutch peninsula of Schiermonnikoog forms the backdrop for the story, in which Groothof himself plays almost all carachter ...

Gebroed (1986)

Television recording of the theatre play 'Gebroed' by the Werkteater from 1983. The play, written and performed by Frank and René Groothof, is about their childhood together, their relationship to each other and to their parents, their conflicts, but also ...