Dood Water

Dood Water
Directed by	Gerard Rutten
Written by	Simon Koster, Gerard Rutten
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	26 October 1934 (1934-10-26)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	Netherlands
Language	Dutch

Dood Water is a 1934 Dutch drama film directed by Gerard Rutten.

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]

References

1. Greene, Graham (6 September 1935). "Dood Wasser/Me and Marlborough". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 18–19. ISBN 0192812866.)

External links

• Dood Water at IMDb