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Hugo Claus

Hugo Claus

Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English.

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Movies Made By Hugo Claus (22)

De Verlossing (2001)

A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son Johnny and his daughter Julia, who's married to a Moroccan soccer player. There's something wrong with Magda, who's not only pl ...

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Herman the Gangster (1995)

Short gangster film based on a novella by Belgian writer Hugo Claus. ...

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The Sacrament (1990)

The 1950s. A family has its annual family reunion to commemorate the anniversary of mother's death. People drink and eat heavily and after a while all restrictions are lost. Family members start venting old frustrations, discussions and tensions. Eventuall ...

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Mascara (1987)

A respected police commissioner has a reputation as a opera lover, but by night he also enjoys plunging into the transvestite scene. In addition, he harbors a longing for his very own sister. When he learns that his wife has been murdered, he tries to impl ...

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Diary of a Mad Old Man (1987)

In this erotic drama, Marcel fantasizes about being with his daughter-in-law Simone after the death of his wife. The woman pretends to be surprised over his attention but does nothing to discourage his advances. He promises to build her a swimming pool in ...

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The van Paemel Family (1986)

The family patriarch Van Paemel is a farmer on baron de Wilde's estate. His mild-mannered son Désire is accidentally shot during a hunting party on the estate and remains an invalid. Eduard, the eldest son, is a member of the socialist workers' movement a ...

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The Lion of Flanders (1985)

A tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a major victory over the glorious French knights. ...

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Minuet (1982)

A factory worker is employed in the desolate, cold-storage cellars of a brewery. His spare time he devotes to collecting romantic images of wild flowers and sticking newspaper cuttings in an album, demonstrating a preference for more gruesome stories. Murd ...

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Vrijdag (1981)

Hugo Claus rewrote and directed Friday as the cinematic version of his original 1969 play of the same name. Just as in the play, the story begins with the theme of incest, as the father Georges (Frank Aendenboom) returns from serving his jail sentence for ...

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Whitey (1980)

The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character. The smart but naughty farmhands son's eternal mischief, pranks ...

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The Inheritance (1978)

An ageing GP tries to convince his son in law to take over his practice. Monique van de Ven plays the doctor's daughter, who is torn apart by love of her husband and solidarity with her father. ...

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Pallieter (1975)

In this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat'-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier who after recovering from a life-threatening disease changes his life completely and his name to the self-in ...

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Cancer Rising (1975)

Well to do business man Pierre falls for the unpredictable and free spirited Toni. They begin a relationship, despite the fact that she's living with another man who is the father of her child. ...

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Because of the Cats (1973)

A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solid ...

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Mira (1971)

The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt. ...

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The Enemies (1968)

The tribulations of an American GI during the Ardennes offensive and the people he encounters, keeps you riveted all the way through the unexpected ending. Great characters in a cold and snowy Belgium. ...

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Toygirl (1968)

Short sci-fi where a man finds a robotic woman a.k.a. 'toygirl'. ...

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Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday (1967)

A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression. ...

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The Dance of the Heron (1966)

The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's trying to get his attention by flirting with a Dutch tourist. ...

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De luitenant (1964)

A film about friendship between forsaken boys. ...

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The Knife (1961)

A boy is resentful of his mother's budding romance with the best friend of her late husband, and is torn and confused about his emerging feelings for Toni, a young girl in his neighborhood. His fascination with an antique Oriental knife leads him to steal ...

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Village by the River (1958)

An independent-thinking doctor in a rural community with his own ideas of how medicine should be practiced begins to find himself ostracized from the community after one of his patients commits suicide. ...

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Movies Starring Hugo Claus (5)

Sylvia Kristel: Nu (2007)

Thirty years ago Sylvia Kristel became world-famous with 'Emmanuelle'. This erotic film was the starting point of a curious career, during which Sylvia acted in more than 50 international film productions, including a short-lived career in Hollywood. A tur ...

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Janssen & Janssens draaien een film (1990)

A documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema. ...

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Jan Cox, a Painter's Odyssey (1988)

Biographical film about the life and work of the Belgian painter Jan Cox. Cox had a tempestuous youth, during which he co-founded the Jeune Peinture Belge group and worked on the fringes of the Cobra movement. ...

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Permeke (1985)

When Anna, a twenty-eight-year-old photographer, is put in charge of a report on the restoration works at The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, she discovers by chance five paintings signed Constant Permeke, whose power and mystery move and fascinate her.She de ...

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De droomproducenten (1984)

Documentary exploring why Belgian television doesn't invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.g. the netherlands. ...

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