Robbe De Hert

Hollywood on the river Scheldt (2018)

Overview of the history of cinema in Flanders. ...

Lijmen/Het been (2000)

Story of two con men, Boorman and his younger assistant Laarmans, who are trying to sell companies their non-existing magazine. ...

Gaston's War (1997)

Gaston Vandermeerssche is a young, resourceful Flemish action hero of the Belgian resistance during World War II: he coaches surviving allied pilots trough occupied Belgium and France to Spain so they can regain England, each time a dangerous adventure as ...

Elixir d'Anvers (1996)

Six young filmmakers were each given the chance to shoot a short on a common theme. Combined, their efforts result in a feature. The idea is to tell an alternative history of Antwerp, based on tall stories, rumors and events. ...

Last Call (1995)

Old entertainer gets a last chance to play a serious role. ...

Brylcream Boulevard (1995)

In this sequel to Blueberry Hill, the boys of the Catholic metal working-class, who are now all working, decide to take revenge on the hated former principal Verbiest, after the sanctimonious 'pillar of society' assaulted one of their girls. ...

Hollywood by Bike (1993)

Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others. ...

Janssen & Janssens draaien een film (1990)

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

Blueberry Hill (1989)

Antwerp in the fifties. Robin de Hert grew up in a Catholic parochial environment; on the one hand there is his authoritarian father and the sadistic secretary of the Catholic boys technical school, on the other hand there are the 'Grieten' and the French ...

Henri Storck, ooggetuige (1986)

Robbe de Hert's Henri Storck, ooggetuige (1986) is a brilliant cinematic homage to the founding father of Belgian documentary cinema. Filmed around Storck's 80th birthday, the film eschews standard biographical formulas. Instead, De Hert crafts an intellig ...

Zware jongens (1984)

Gaston grew up on the fringes of society and interacts with other people as little as possible. Leo, on the other hand, is a very bourgeois person. He lives way above his station, but has a heart of gold. Using forged cheques and unsecured credit cards, he ...

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. ...

The Life We Dreamt Of (1982)

Antwerp. Someone is making a feature film. After shooting the scenes on location, the filmmaker wanders to the railway station. He's having difficulties with his material, it's a commissioned film. The story is giving him trouble too. But he cannot abandon ...

Le Filet Américain (1981)

The documentary's legacy lies in its unapologetic fusion of agitprop and satire, a signature style of De Hert's Fugitive Cinema collective. By juxtaposing Mandel's economic theories with absurd military parades, the film exposes the contradictions of a soc ...

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 ...

De Proefkonijnen (1979)

The men of Chemics International lead a quiet life. However, this is cruelly disrupted by an industrial accident in which a toxic substance is released. Some workers are killed; many others are irrevocably contaminated and may suffer permanent injuries. Th ...

Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving) (1977)

A three independent parts sci-fi drama. In the first, entitled The Bomb, a story of a garage mechanic is told who finds an atomic bomb by accident. The second part, entitled The Last Judgment, deals with the consequences of a military convoy carrying biolo ...

De Dokstaking (Dokstaking '73) (1975)

Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces) (1973)

The Herts Camera Sutra or The Palefaces (1973) is a militant and visually fragmented critique of Belgian bourgeois society, blending documentary collage with semi-autobiographical fiction. De Hert attacks the distractions of nationalism, religion, and popu ...

Arthur Is Fantastic (1972)

Arthur Is Fantastic is a b/w Fluxus film that portraits Arthur Indenbaum and turns him into a work of art by obliterating the boundaries between art and life. Arthur Indenbaum was the son of an American diamond dealer who had come to Antwerp in the late 19 ...

Dood van een sandwichman (1971)

A documentary about cycling and the death of cycling world champion Jean-Pierre Monseré in 1971. ...

De Bom (of het wanhoopskomitee) (1969)

One day a garage owner finds an atomic bomb that has been lost by an airplane. He hides the bomb and shakes the country when he announces that he will not return the bomb until the production of such weapons of destruction is stopped. ...

De geboorte en dood van Dirk Vandersteen jr. (1968)

The wife of a local dictator gets a miscarriage during a failed assault by rebels. The dictators' brother suggesst to present the newly born baby of one a the dead rebels as his posterity. ...

S.O.S. Fonske (1968)

Cinema Verité about Fons Noyens who cannot pay for the damages caused by an accident as his ensurance company had become bankrupt. We get to see the public auctioning of his household effects. ...

A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Golgotha (1967)

Short animation film about the crusade of a Hebrew figure who is looking for somewhere to lay down his cross. ...

Twee Keer Twee Ogen (1963)

Passers-by are filmed against the background of Antwerp's Central Station. A boy bumps into a girl in the crowd. Eye contact occurs. ...

Hollywood on the river Scheldt (2018)

Overview of the history of cinema in Flanders. ...

Misstakes (2000)

André Mahy, an artistic but unemployed director, gets an offer to make a movie, the script of which appears to be a 'Kiekeboe' comic story entitled Misstakes. A fascinating dialogue develops between the fictional story of the family Kiekeboe and the real ...

Janssen & Janssens draaien een film (1990)

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

Koko Flanel (1990)

Placide's dad tells him on his deathbed he'll haunt Placide if he doesn't find a wife soon. Placide cautiously agrees, but he only wants to settle for a very beautiful woman. That might be easier said than done, since he is a vagabond. When he accidentally ...

Paniekzaaiers (1986)

Gaston and Leo are active in Antwerp's motorbike brigade. But the two are demoted to simple neighbourhood cops. When they track down a dangerous woman kidnapper and his accomplice, the pair soon find themselves back in favour. Before they can complete thei ...

Springen (1986)

Springen (Jumping) is an absurdist comedy set inside 'Sempa Vivax', an exclusive and highly unusual retirement home housed in a castle.The facility caters specifically to wealthy elderly residents, offering them the unique opportunity to fully realize thei ...

Silent Bruges (1981)

Hugues cannot get over the untimely death of his wife Blanche, who made him happy for ten years. He lives alone in his house in Bruges, a city he would like to be dead like his wife. The sorrowful widower has transformed the place he lives in into a shrine ...

Le Filet Américain (1981)

The documentary's legacy lies in its unapologetic fusion of agitprop and satire, a signature style of De Hert's Fugitive Cinema collective. By juxtaposing Mandel's economic theories with absurd military parades, the film exposes the contradictions of a soc ...

Rubens, schilder en diplomaat (1977)

This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis ...

Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving) (1977)

A three independent parts sci-fi drama. In the first, entitled The Bomb, a story of a garage mechanic is told who finds an atomic bomb by accident. The second part, entitled The Last Judgment, deals with the consequences of a military convoy carrying biolo ...

Potemkine 3 (1974)

Recovering all of the intertitles of the Battleship Potemkin, Jean-Marie Buchet substitutes for the images of the film various views that he himself shot and which are unrelated to the initial work, thus joining the technique of diversion widely recommende ...

Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces) (1973)

The Herts Camera Sutra or The Palefaces (1973) is a militant and visually fragmented critique of Belgian bourgeois society, blending documentary collage with semi-autobiographical fiction. De Hert attacks the distractions of nationalism, religion, and popu ...

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. ...

A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Golgotha (1967)

Short animation film about the crusade of a Hebrew figure who is looking for somewhere to lay down his cross. ...

19 december (1965)

A short war film ...