The Debut (1977 film)
| Het Debuut | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Nouchka van Brakel |
| Written by | Nouchka van Brakel Carel Donck |
| Produced by | René Solleveld Matthijs van Heijningen |
| Starring | Marina de Graaf |
| Cinematography | Theo van de Sande |
| Edited by | August Verschueren |
| Music by | Ron Westerbeek |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Language | Dutch |
Het Debuut ('The Debut') is a 1977 Dutch drama film based on a Hester Albach's novel and directed by Nouchka van Brakel. [1][2][3][4]
Plot summary[edit]
A 14 year old girl and a 41 year old friend of her father's fall in love, and soon their relationship grows into a sexual one as well. For some time all is happy, but then the tension grows too much, because of the secrecy and frustration of being the lover of a married man, and because she feels he starts to treat her too much like a child instead of a lover.
Cast[edit]
- Marina de Graaf as Carolien
- Gerard Cox as Hugo
- Pleuni Touw as Rita/Hugo's wife
- Kitty Courbois as Anne/Carolien's mother
- Dolf de Vries as Dr.Peter/Carolien's father
- Wendy Ferwerda as Susan
- Sandrien van Brakel as Tanja/Carolien's schoolmate
- Pieter Fleury as Jacques
Production[edit]
News of the film version began to pick up steam in November of 1976 when De Telegraph ran a full-page article on the film's casting. Nouchka van Brakel wanted an unknown for the lead, though. It was essential that the part not be played by a recognizable actress. A week before Christmas, 1976, De Telegraph announced 17-year-old Marina de Graaf as the actress who Van Brakel had cast.[5]
Reception[edit]
"Het Debuut was one of the top three Dutch films of 1977."[6] The film, "Nouchka's first full - length film , (is) a confident justification of her belief that a woman can render her sex much more precisely on screen than a male director can", according to Dutch Cinema: An Illustrated History.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ Robinson, David (1986). The Illustrated History of the Cinema. Orbis. ISBN 978-0-85613-754-9.
- ^ Verstraten, Peter (30 March 2021). Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-485-5172-9.
- ^ Vermeulen, Ella (19 October 2022). "Eye Amsterdam eert powervrouw Nouchka van Brakel | Nouveau". www.nouveau.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ Waardenburg, André (1 June 2016). "Nouchka van Brakel: A Female Point of View". Filmkrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ "Nouchka van Brakel's Het Debuut (The Debut)". nostalgiakinky.com. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
- ^ Nelmes, Jill; Selbo, Jule (29 September 2015). Women Screenwriters: An International Guide. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-31237-2.
- ^ Cowie, Peter (1979). Dutch Cinema: An Illustrated History. Tantivy Press. ISBN 978-0-498-02425-2.
External links[edit]
- Het Debuut at IMDb
