Pim de la Parra
1940 (84 года)
One People
Pim de la Parra
Willeke van Ammelrooy, Borger Breeveld
Back in his native Suriname to see his dying mother, an Afro-Surinamese student from the Netherlands’ former colony finds himself torn between his Amsterdam-based life with his white Dutch girlfriend and a future in his newly independent homeland when he falls for a local Hindostani nurse.
One People
Het geheim van de Saramacca rivier
Pim de la Parra
Kenneth Herdigein, Lucille Roberts
University teacher Horatio and his young wife Hortense are so wrapped up in their marital crisis, that they are unaware of the conspiracy unfolding around them.
Het geheim van de Saramacca rivier
Lost in Amsterdam
Pim de la Parra
Ralph Wingens, Kenneth Herdigein
A tasty, vulgar, low-budget, urban road movie about a satirical drawn art environment with great impromptu renditions and Peter Falk detective pastiche Wingers to lick your thumbs and fingers. The American-Dutch psychiatrist Bold Wasser plays in his role as Detective Scotty all professional actors of the cloth. Long plan sequence shots give the film an almost documentary, authentic appearance.
Lost in Amsterdam
Odyssée d'amour
Pim de la Parra
Herbert Flack, Sarah Brackett
Paul has a full-time lover, an older English woman whose common sense and down-to-earth qualities more than compensate for her relative lack of passion. After all, he is surrounded by women clamoring for time with him in bed. So are all the other men in the story. When one of his sons dies suddenly during an operation, Paul is devastated and cannot make out what has gone wrong in his life. None of his current crop of friends has any insight to offer. Some of these questions become clearer when his sister, with whom he is almost unnaturally close, comes to visit.
Odyssey of Love
Frank en Eva
Pim de la Parra
Willeke van Ammelrooy, Hugo Metsers
The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can't live together, but can't live without each other either. Frank has sex with every woman he can get, while Eva wants to start a family.
Frank and Eva
Parradox
In-soo Radstake
Willeke van Ammelrooy, Sylvia Kristel
"Pim is more consummate," actress Willeke van Ammelrooy concluded upon seeing Pim de la Parra again in Suriname, at the presentation of the restored version of his film Wan Pipel. This marked the end of her disagreement with the director, which arose during the making of this film, some 35 years ago now. The charming director doesn't seem like the kind of man you can stay angry with for long. Wan Pipel turned out to be a watershed in the career of this headstrong filmmaker, who shook up the Dutch film world in the late 1960s. Although he went on to fight back with his so-called "minimal movies," he would never again get the opportunities his talent and inventiveness deserved. In Parradox In-Soo Radstake provides a personal portrait of De la Parra, now 70 years of age, who after many adventures in the Netherlands has returned to his native Suriname. He discusses the major themes of his life and work, which for a long time coexisted: too many women, too little money, too much ego.
Parradox
De nacht van de wilde ezels
Pim de la Parra
Pim de la Parra, Liz Snoyink
A satire about the difficult way films are made in the Netherlands. The focus is on the painstaking way in which aspiring filmmakers, have to see the script in hand, grants and funds available.
The Night of the Wild Donkeys