Little Sister ( Zusje )

Little Sister (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Zusje
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Dutch ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Dutch ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Robert Jan Westdijk

Written By:
Robert Jan Westdijk
Jos Driessen

Actors:
Kim van Kooten ..... Daantje
Romijn Conen ..... Martijn (as Martijn Zuidewind)
Hugo Metsers III ..... Martijn (voice)
Bert Pot ..... Martijn, subjective camera
Roeland Fernhout ..... Ramon
Ganna Veenhuysen ..... Ingeborg
Hannah Risselada ..... Little Daantje
Michael Münninghoff ..... Little Martijn
Alenka Dorrele ..... Mother Zuidewind
Peter Idenburg ..... Father Zuidewind
Taco Keers ..... Bas
Marianne Jeuken ..... Neighbour
Carl Wünderlich ..... Marketender
Herman Brood ..... Ramon's upper neighbour
Eulalia Montseré ..... Spanish friend

Synopsis:

The entire film is shot from the point of view of one of the main characters: Martijn. Martijn hasn't seen his zusje (little sister) Daantje for a long time - one day he visits her and after hesitating a while, she allows him to come in to her flat unknowingly allowing him to enter her life. Obsessed with his sister he relentlessly follows her around everywhere with a camcorder, recording her life on tape. With Martijn we start learning about Daantje's life, her friends, her interests. It soon becomes clear that the relationship between the siblings is not without tension - we get hints that there was a traumatic event in the past that both have not digested properly, but which gradually will be revealed during the course of the film.

After several years without contact, Martijn visits his sister Daantje, who just started to live on her own in Amsterdam. He tells her he is going to make a documentary about her life, and enters her home with a video camera. This creates tension between Daantje and her brother because he wants to recall something that happened between them in the past. To keep Martijn at a distance, Daantje starts a relationship with Ramón, but Martijn gets between them. He manages to talk to her so that she remembers the things that happened when they were kids. This helps him to overcome his obsession for his sister, and after playing over their history, he is finally able to see her without the video camera like he did during the course of the movie.

This disturbing yet highly distinguished Dutch film follows the incestuous obsession of a young man attracted to his beautiful sister. Using a subjective camera, it is filmed from the perspective of the young man, Matthew, who in turn uses a camera to film his sister Daantje. The siblings haven't seen each other in years, and Daantje is not pleased to have her brother forcing his way into her life and filming her every move with his camera. It seems she and he share an uncomfortable secret, shown via Super-8 film in which their parents found them naked in bed on one of her birthdays. But film does not always tell the truth and later, when Daantje steals the camera away from Matthew, the reality of the little escapade is revealed.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 20 April, 2006.

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