Hans, Life Before Death
1983•2h 35m•6.8•Released
Documentary
Filmmaker Louis van Gasteren reconstructs the life of Amsterdam poet, composer and actor Hans van Sweeden, who took his own life at the age of twenty-four in 1963. Through interviews with friends, relatives and contemporaries, alongside archival material, the film becomes both an intimate portrait of Van Sweeden and a broader account of a young generation searching for freedom, identity and new ways of living in Amsterdam during the 1950s and 1960s.
Director
Louis van Gasteren
Languages
Dutch
Cast
Jan Cremer
Himself
Willem Nijholt
Himself
Hans van Sweeden
Himself
Production
Producer
Joke Meerman
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