A film by Peter Dop
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.
This film is available on DVD
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88 minutes / colour / optical sound / S-16mm / 35 mm / Beta SP / VHS / Digi Beta
Direction/screenplay: Peter Dop
Shooting direction: Anne van Dongen
Scrip: Janette Kolkema
Casting: Hans Kemna, Job Gosschalk
Camera: Lex Wertwijn, Jan Wich, Peter Brugman
Grip: Dirk Nijland
Sound: Jac Vleeshouwers
Editing: Jan Dop
Production: Anja Cloosterman, Anke van Loon, Monique van Welzen
Executive producer: Leen van den Berg
Producers: Leen van den Berg en René Scholten
Light: Jaap Veldhoen, Wiro Felix
Translation: Martin CleaverDistribution: 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 Filmproducties / Studio nieuwe gronden 1995