Pallieter

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-invented Pallieter. He moves in with Charlote, a naive, caring relative in the country, where he starts frolicking, no longer caring for image, career or possessions, but concentrates on enjoying life -such as a draftee relative's Brueghelian wedding- and finds love with Marieke. A dark story-line however is when projected work on the river in the name of economical progress threatens the rural landscape they have fallen in love with...

• Release date
• December 12, 1975
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Genres
• Romance, Drama
• Director
• Roland Verhavert

Cast

Eddie Brugman Pallieter Jacqueline Rommerts Marieke Sylvia de Leur Charlotte

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Joris Diels Pastoor Idwig Stephane Fransoo

R

Rudi Van Vlaenderen Oude Graaf Herbert Flack Jonge Graaf

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Manu Verreth Nonkel Manu