The demise of Herman Dürer
Feature film based on Leon de Winter's book of the same name, in which protagonist Herman Dürer hitchhike south after a stay in a juvenile detention center and ends up stranded in Munich.
Jean van de Velde
Jean van de Velde
Leon de Winter
Leon de Winter
René Seegers
René Seegers
Casts & Crew
Felix-Jan Kuypers
Henny Alma
Ab Abspoel
Vivian Lampe
Ed van Gils
Miek Smit
Onno Molenkamp
Joop Admiraal
Jimmy Berghout
Hanns Zischler
Jody Buchman
Juliane Melchthal
Cor Witschge
Also Directed by Jean van de Velde
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Also Directed by Leon de Winter
Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are mixed-up in time and in location, thereby dashing any hope of following the story. A journalist goes to a southern European country to interview a well-known terrorist who has refused to stop his activities even though the revolution he fought for ended successfully five years earlier. Questions are raised about adopting violence as a way of life without at first realizing it and about the seeming impossibility of raising the consciousness of backwater cultures. Perhaps because of the way the story has been filleted into fragments, characters like the journalist and terrorist do not have enough continuous screen time to build up their individuality, a second factor that makes it difficult to become involved in the drama.