Dood Water
1934 film
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Dood Water is a 1934 Dutch drama film directed by Gerard Rutten.
Directed byGerard Rutten
Written bySimon Koster, Gerard Rutten
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
- 26 October 1934
| Dood Water | |
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| Directed by | Gerard Rutten |
| Written by | Simon Koster, Gerard Rutten |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Language | Dutch |
Cast
- Jan Musch ... Willem de Geus
- Theo de Maal ... Jaap de Meeuw (as Teo de Maal)
- Betsy Ranucci-Beckman ... Aaf de Meeuw
- Arnold Marlé... Dirk Brak
- Max Croiset ... Jan Brak
- Helga Gogh ... Maartje Brak
- Johan Schilthuyzen
- Jules Verstraete
Reception
The film won the Coppa Istituto Luce at Venice Film Festival (1934), for best cinematography, by Andor von Barsy.
Writing for The Spectator, Graham Greene praised the film's documentary prologue as "an exciting piece of pure cinema", and commented that the story which follows "has some of the magnificent drive one felt behind the classic Russian films, behind Earth and The General Line: no tiresome 'message', but a belief in the importance of a human activity truthfully reported". Greene also noted, however, that "the photography is uneven: at moments it is painfully 'arty', deliberately out of focus".[1]
