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THE SHADOW WALKERS 1995
  A film by Peter Dop
 
Synopsis

Two brothers, Leen and Albert, fill their days with pointless activity. Leen hangs round under bridges. Albert plies back and forth across a river as captain of a ferry without passengers. They are married to two sisters, but by chance each to the wrong one. In the evenings the two men follow passers by. They walk through a city, that gets increasingly absurd as it becomes clear that the ordinary people they follow are people with largely unrequitable desires. In the play with small and apparently insignificant detail, the two shadow walkers move between the real and the apparent. This reality in transformed into a comedy or tragedy about the absurdity of human existence.

Inspired on short stories of Dylan Thomas en Gianni Calati

 
Credits 88 minutes / colour / optical sound / S-16mm / 35 mm / Beta SP / VHS / Digi Beta
  Crew:
  Direction/screenplay Peter Dop
  Shooting Director Anne van Dongen
  Script/continuities Janette Kolkema
  Casting Hans Kemna, Job Gosschalk
  Photography Lex Wertwijn, Jan Wich, Peter Brugman
  Light Jaap Veldhoen, Wiro Felix
  Grip Dirk Nijland
  Sound Jac Vleeshouwers
  Art Direction Rebecca Geskus
  Requesition Marianne Laan
  Costume Mariël Beemster
  Set Design and Construction Jan Willem Dey
  Make-up Florence Wartena
  Editor Jan Dop
  Stills fotograaf Pief Weyman
  Translation Martin Cleaver
  Production Anja Cloosterman, Anke van Loon, Monique van Welzen
  Lokation manager Heleen Snuverink
  Catering Tom Bergman/Cinecoach, Mirthe van Wijk, Tjerk Bergman
  Executive Producer Leen van den Berg
  Producers Leen van den Berg en René Scholten
  Cast:
  Leen Pierre Bokma
  Albert Aat Ceelen
  Stijn Jeroen Willems
  Judith Marlies Heuer
  Paula Lineke Rijxman
  Serveerster Ariane Schluter
  Margreet Betty Schuurman
  Man with suitcase Jack Wouterse
  Marco Han Kerckhoffs
  Frans Dirk Zeelenberg
  American soldier Dennis Rudge
  Schoonhoven Jan Kruse
 
  Distribution NFM/IAF
 
  This film has been realised with financial support of the Dutch Film Fund and the Deventer City Marketing Foundation.
 
  The Shadow Walkers is a co-production by Van der Hoop Film Productions, Studio Nieuwe Gronden en ZDF, in cooperation with ARTE.
 
  © Van der Hoop Film Productions / Studio Nieuwe Gronden 1995