Katie Tippel ( Keetje Tippel ) ( Katie's Passion )

Katie Tippel (DVD) (*)

$27.99

Original Title: Keetje Tippel
Alternate Title: Katie's Passion
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1975 and produced in:
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Paul Verhoeven

Written By:
Neel Doff
Gerard Soeteman

Actors:
Monique van de Ven ..... Keetje Tippel
Rutger Hauer ..... Hugo
Andrea Domburg ..... Keetje's moeder
Hannah de Leeuwe ..... Mina, Keetje's zus
Jan Blaaser ..... Keetje's vader
Eddie Brugman ..... Andre
Peter Faber ..... George
Mart Gevers ..... Pierre
Riet Henius ..... Klant
Walter Kous ..... Vrouw in wasfabriek
Tonny Popper
Jan Retèl
Fons Rademakers
Riek Schagen
Carry Tefsen

Synopsis:

Made in 1975 and directed by Paul Verhoeven, Katie Tippel ("Katie the Streetwalker") is a handsome period drama set in 19th-century Holland, based on a true story. The second eldest daughter in a poor, Friesland family who move to Amsterdam, Katie (Monique Van de Ven) must find whatever work is going to make ends meet. She has already learnt to have no faith in her weak father. Now, as she enters a succession of jobs in which she experiences both exploitation and sexual harassment, she learns that men want her only for one thing. Duly, at the behest of her own mother, she enters into prostitution. However, when she becomes model to an artist, she is finally able to escape the poverty trap and ascend the social ladder, particularly when banker Hugo (Rutger Hauer) takes her as his lover. All this is set against a backdrop of social foment as the workers' impatience at poor social conditions increases. Although director Verhoeven, as well as Hauer and cinematographer Jan De Bont eventually became involved in mainstream American movies, Katie Tippel is very much of the European school of filmmaking: episodic and harsh in its depiction of everyday poverty. The dead puppy at the beginning definitely marks it out as being contrary to Hollywood's near-zero canine mortality rate. The sexual scenes are graphic to the point of gratuitousness but always grimly non-titillating. Budgetary limits cramp some of the mass street scenes, but generally the film is beautifully shot and ageless in feel. A far cry, certainly, from Showgirls, for which Verhoeven was later responsible.

Bold and brutal, this drama is a great example of Paul Verhoeven's frank, and often explicit, style that continues to cause controversy. A true story set in 19th century Holland, Keetje Tippel is a young girl born into poverty whose mother takes her to work in a brothel. As men use her, so too, Katie decides, she can use them to obtain the social status she seeks. When she becomes the mistress of a young banker (Hauer), Keetje finds a foothold in the Dutch upper-class and uses it to wed one of the banker's wealthy friends with tragic consequences...

This early Paul Verhoeven effort stars Monique van de Ven as a young Dutch hooker in 1881 Amsterdam who struggles to move up the community's social ladder.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 04 April, 2009.

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