Flemish Classic Films Collection - 10-DVD Box Set ( Boerenpsalm / Brugge, die stille (Bruges, la morte) / De leeuw van Vlaanderen / De loteling (Le conscrit) / Pallieter / De vlaschaard / Het gezin van Paemel (La famille Van Paemel) / Mira / Het afscheid / Vrijdag ) ( A Peasant's Psalm / Bruges, Still Life / The Lion of Flanders / The Conscript / Pallieter / The Flaxfield (The Flax field) / The Van Paemel Family / Mira / Farewells (Farewells) / Friday )

Flemish Classic Films Collection - 10-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Boerenpsalm / Brugge, die stille (Bruges, la morte) / De leeuw van Vlaanderen / De loteling (Le conscrit) / Pallieter / De vlaschaard / Het gezin van Paemel (La famille Van Paemel) / Mira / Het afscheid / Vrijdag
Alternate Title: A Peasant's Psalm / Bruges, Still Life / The Lion of Flanders / The Conscript / Pallieter / The Flaxfield (The Flax field) / The Van Paemel Family / Mira / Farewells (Farewells) / Friday
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Moscow International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
535 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1966 - 1989 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Roland Verhavert
Hugo Claus
Jan Gruyaert
Paul Cammermans
Fons Rademakers

Written By:
Felix Timmermans
Théodore Louis
Roland Verhavert
Hugo Claus
Hendrik Conscience
Jan Gruyaert
Stijn Streuvels
Jan Blokker
Cyriel Buysse
Magda Reypens
Ivo Michiels

Actors:
Bert André ..... Pastoor
Jef Burm ..... Amelieke
Ludo Busschots ..... Frisine
Sabine De Volder ..... Fons
Rudi Delhem ..... Commissaris
Christel Domen ..... Fien
Erik Goossens ..... Weduwe
Jos van Gorp ..... Ossekop
Magda Lesage ..... Franelle
Gerda Marchand ..... Jongen op begrafenis
Jacky Morel ..... Vroedvrouw
Ugo Prinsen
Jeanine Schevernels
Jan Steen
Alice Toen
Idwig Stephane ..... Hugues Viane
Magda Lesage ..... Blanche Viane / Jeanne Marchal
Chris Boni ..... Rosalie, de huishoudster
Herbert Flack ..... Biechtvader
Caroline Vlerick ..... Bloemenmeisje
Filip Vervoort ..... Danser
Cécile Fondu ..... Danseres
Frank Aendenboom ..... Robrecht van Bethune
Bert André ..... Eremiet (I)
Piet Balfoort ..... Jacques de Chatillon, comte de Leuze
Theu Boermans ..... Moeder Breydel
Chris Boni ..... St.Pol
Hans Boskamp ..... Jan van Renesse
Ronnie Commissaris ..... Robert d'Artois
Jules Croiset ..... Bauden de Vos
Bart Dauwe ..... Jan van Namen
Jo De Meyere ..... Zwarte Hertogin
Vic de Wachter ..... Jan Breydel
Ilma De witte ..... Willem Van Gullik
Jan Decleir
Karel Deruwe
Herbert Flack
Jan Decleir ..... Jan Braems
Ansje Beentjes ..... Katrien
Gaston Vandermeulen ..... Grootvader
Gella Allaert ..... Katriens moeder
Bernard Verheyden ..... Karel
Idwig Stephane ..... Korporaal
Eddy Asselbergs ..... Boef (I)
Leo Madder ..... Boef (II)
Denise Zimmerman ..... Vrouw van kommandant
Rudi Van Vlaenderen ..... Dokter
Johan Vanderbracht ..... Kommandant
Gilbert Charles ..... Maris
Werner Kopers ..... Hoertje
Marieke van Leeuwen
Roger Bolders
Eddie Brugman ..... Pallieter
Jacqueline Rommerts ..... Marieke
Sylvia de Leur ..... Charlotte
Joris Diels ..... Pastoor
Idwig Stephane ..... Fransoo
Rudi Van Vlaenderen ..... Oude graaf
Hugo Van Den Berghe ..... Jonge Graaf
Cary Fontyn ..... Bohumil
Herbert Flack ..... Oom
Jan Decleir ..... Oom
Manu Verreth ..... Jules
Jan Reussens ..... Tante
Robbe De Hert
Erna Palsterman
Vic Moeremans ..... Farmer father Vermeulen
Rene Van Sambeek ..... Louis Vermeulen
Marc Peeters ..... Ivo
Dirk Celis ..... Bert
Daan Hugaert ..... Jan
Dries Wieme ..... Poortere
Carlos van Lanckere ..... Stafke
Jos Geens ..... Doorken de Slijter
Max Schnur
Ben Simons
Jos Kennis
Rik Bravenboer
Gil Lefever
André Van Daele
Frans Vercammen
Frank Aendenboom ..... Rentmeester
Camilia Blereau ..... Danielle
Chris Boni ..... Boerin Van Paemel
Raymond Bossaerts ..... Kappuyns
Walter Claessens ..... Baron de Wilde
Ronnie Commissaris ..... Kapitein
Harry De Peuter ..... Rijkswachter 2
Juliette Van de Sompel ..... Oude keukenmeid
Frans Van De Velde ..... Pastoor Liekens
Luc De Wit ..... Willems
Jan Decleir ..... Masco
Karel Deruwe ..... Barones de Wilde
Andrea Domburg ..... Cordule Van Paemel
Ille Geldhof
Carry Goossens
Willeke van Ammelrooy ..... Mira
Jan Decleir ..... Lander
Carlos van Lanckere ..... deken Broeke
Luc Ponette ..... Maurice Rondeau
Roger Bolders ..... Sieper
Mart Gevers ..... Manse
Freek de Jonge ..... Treute
Charles Janssens ..... Snoek
Josephine van Gasteren ..... Moeder van Maurice
Fons Rademakers ..... Notaris
Romain DeConinck ..... Landmeter
Ann Petersen ..... Hospita
Ward de Ravet ..... Rijkswachter
Jo Gevers
Bert André
Petra Laseur ..... Laure
Julien Schoenaerts ..... Pierre Wesselmans, marconist
Senne Rouffaer ..... Jessen, steward
Kris Betz ..... Conducteur
Edward Deleu ..... Frenkel
Marlene Edeling ..... Meisje
Bert Struys ..... Kapitein
Pros Verbruggen ..... Consul
Jack Sels ..... Man in café
Rudi Delhem ..... Passante
Marilou Mermans
Frank Aendenboom ..... Georges
Kitty Courbois ..... Jeanne
Herbert Flack ..... Erik
Hilde Van Mieghem ..... Christiane
Hugo Van Den Berghe ..... Jules
Theo Daese ..... Alex
Ann Petersen ..... Moeder van Erik
André Van Daele ..... Solange
Jaap Hoogstra ..... Weduwe van Charles
Karin Jacobs ..... Model voor Jules
Mimi Kok ..... Advokaat Georges
Jakob Beks
Lydia Billiet
Dirk Celis
Bart Dauwe

Synopsis:

***WARNING***Farewells (Het afscheid) does not contain English - Dutch audio & Dutch subtitles only***
A Peasant's Psalm (1989)
The film centres around Wortel, a small farmer who, despite a life filled with terrible misfortunes, fights back with a remarkable lust for life.

Bruges, Still Life (1981)
Hugues is shattered by the death of his wife, so much so that he sets up a shrine for her.

The Lion of Flanders (1985)
Revolt against France of the Flemish municipalities and their victory at the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302.

The Conscript (1974)
Set during the 19th century, the film tells of the fate that strikes a peasant driven unwillingly into the army.

Pallieter (1976)
A turn-of-the-century degenerate townie transforms himself into a childlike rural hero...

The Flaxfield (1985)
Story of the feud between a stubborn farmer and his son, which begins over the sowing of the flax field.

The Van Paemel Family (1987)
The family patriarch Van Paemel is a farmer on baron de Wilde's estate.

Mira (1971)
The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.

Farewells (1966)
A sailor who is required to report back to ship every evening not knowing when it is going to sail...

Friday (1981)
Film about a working man who returns from prison, where he has been imprisoned for incest...

A Peasant's Psalm (1989)
This Flemish heimat-movie after a novel by Felix Timmermans, the title of which translates as 'Farmer's Psalm', is about the at first sight idyllic, but actually tragical life of Wortel, a god-fearing peasant in a pre-war Belgian village, who has a hard time accepting the curate's assurance it's all part of God's grand plan when his loved ones keep coming to terrible harm, and searching solace in the hand-carving of a wooden statue of Christ.

Bruges, Still Life (1981)
Hugues cannot get over the untimely death of his wife Blanche, who made him happy for ten years. He lives alone in his house in Bruges, a city he would like to be dead like his wife. The sorrowful widower has transformed the place he lives in into a shrine dedicated to his beloved wife. One day, he meets Jeanne, a ballet dancer, who looks like Blanche.

The Lion of Flanders (1985)
Set at the beginning of the 14th century, this story about the revolution against French rule by a group of Flemish cities, based on a novel by Hendrik Conscience, was meant to portray the panorama of an epic moment in Flemish history. Philip the Fair (1268-1314), king of France and Navarre, was ultimately defeated in the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302, and along the way to that defeat, subplots and interwoven events in this film tend to paint the protagonists in black or white, such as the wife of the French king, Joan the First of Navarre, shown as particularly murderous.

The Conscript (1974)
In 1833, when the fledgling Belgian kingdom still fears a Dutch invasion, recruits were selected annually from an age cohort by a draw of lots in each locality. In this grim, then contemporary drama by the 'father of Flemish literature', Hendrik Conscience, Jan Braems, a poor and naive farmers-boy, accepts the not uncommon offer by a rich family to sell his lucky ticket (out) to their son for a hefty sum compared to the miserable labor wages at the time. Army life is even harsher then a farmhand's, especially for a Dutch-speaking an-alphabet who simply can't understand his francophone superiors, and Jan's nature is not complacent enough for military discipline even by todays standards, so he soon gets into all kinds of trouble, including gambling his capital away and a venereal disease. When his girlfriend back home goes looking for him, her life is doomed as well.

Pallieter (1976)
In this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat') novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier who after recovering from a life-threatening disease changes his life completely and his name to the self-invented Pallieter (the Dutch language has adopted this as a noun for a 'bon vivant'). He moves in with Charlote, a naive, caring relative in the country, where he starts frolicking, no longer caring for image, career or possessions, but concentrates on enjoying life - such as a draftee relative's Brueghelian wedding and finds love with Marieke. A dark story-line however is when projected work on the river in the name of economical progress threatens the rural landscape they have fallen in love with.

The Flaxfield (1985)
In a part of Flanders where flax is the main crop, farmer Vermeulen rules his estate like an 'old school' patriarch, stern and authoritarian, nobody else's word is ever taken seriously, just scolded fools, he rather risks being wrong then considering any advice. His marriage is based on a grim understanding: the wife Barbele accepts his heartless manner with everyone, even their studious, smart, healthy, studly son and heir Louis, but his two silly sisters are spoiled with a pointless fancy nunnery boarding school education fit for the upper classes. Farm-life is hard enough, laboring without machines or reliable weather, but this year the stubborn master made it even worse by picking the riskier, badly drained field and sowing later then his neighbors, even when luck turns he'll fetch a lower price for it. Poor practically perfect Louis is granted neither praise, respect nor any pleasure, however hard and well he slaves, obedient like the hired farmhands although well-read. Even being seen innocently frolicking with the milkmaid Honorine 'Schellebelle' earns him not just another public scolding -everbody is used to those all the time-, father, who has an absurd paranoia ma secretly plots with Louis to 'push him aside', decides it's time to marry the 'boy' off, telling ma to find him a 'suitable' bride without even telling their son, and scrapes together their life savings to buy a retiring neighbor's estate for the still non-existing couple. While pa is off to the auction, Louis takes it on himself to order finishing the urgent harvesting, but when the old tyrant sees this unauthorized initiative, already celebrating in the customary way, his abominably unforgiving arrogance drives him to commit an utterly unforgivable crime...

The Van Paemel Family (1987)
The family patriarch Van Paemel is a farmer on baron de Wilde's estate. His mild-mannered son Désire is accidentily shot during a hunting party on the estate and remains an invalid. Eduard, the eldest son, is a member of the socialist workers' movement and involved in strike actions in the city. Against her father's wishes, his daughter Cordule starts an affair with the poacher Masco. His youngest daughter, Romanie, is forced to work as a domestic servant at the castle, where she is seduced by Maurice, the baron's son and heir, and becomes pregnant. When the youngest son Kamiel also has to leave the farm because he is drafted into the army, the lack of workers on Van Paemel's farm becomes critical. As a result, the family is evicted from their home because they cannot pay the rent. Three of the children emigrate to the USA, one becomes a nun and one dies, until only the farmer and his wife remain.

Mira (1971)
The small village Waterhoek is isolated on the river Scheldt, only connected by a ferry with the outside world. The planning of a bridge caused a rebellion of the inhabitants. Based on the novel by Styn Streuvels.

Farewells (1966)
The Farewells is set against the background of the Antwerp docks. Pierre Wesselmans is a radio telegrapher on a ship. This ship is part of a secret government mission. Pierre struggles to keep his spirits up when each day he has to say goodbye to his family. He has to do this each day because he never knows when he might have to leave on this secret mission.

Friday (1981)
Georges, a workman in his forties, get unexpected released from jail after being imprisoned for two years for having passed a sexual relation with his daughter. Once arrived home, he encountered himself in a difficult situation: Meanwhile him being imprisoned, his wife started a love affair with his best friend, and more, she has gotten a child from him. Georges is prepared to forgive his wife, as a compensation for the crime committed with their daughter, and under the condition that she comes back to live with him. In this complex and emotional loaded situation, Georges and his wife are trying to find back peace of mind and to go on with their lives.

A Peasant's Psalm (1989)
Based upon the novel from Felix Timmermans (classic Flemish novelist who can be seen as a sort Emile Zola of Flanders) we see Flanders hundred years ago, the Flemish farmer's life! This must be for decades the most beloved area for Belgian movies and 'Boerenpsalm' really captures all the attributes from the genre.

Bruges, Still Life (1981)
Hugues is shattered by the death of his wife, so much so that he sets up a shrine for her. One day he meets a young woman who looks exactly like his wife, but she is just another object of his obsession he doesn't really love her. The young woman desecrates the shrine and is strangled by Hugues.

The Lion of Flanders (1985)
Based on the novel by Hendrik Conscience about the revolt against France of the Flemish municipalities and their victory at the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302.

The Conscript (1974)
Set during the 19th century, the film tells of the fate that strikes a peasant driven unwillingly into the army. Bad treatment makes him lose his sight, but with the help of his girlfriend he manages to escape and find happiness.

Pallieter (1976)
A turn-of-the-century degenerate townie transforms himself into a childlike rural hero who blows soap bubbles, puts mirrors round the outside of his house, champions nature against the bespoilers, marries a charming girl and sets out round the world in a cart to avoid the century's horrid future.

The Flaxfield (1985)
Based on the novel by Stijn Streuvels. Story of the country life in a small village in the West of Flanders, and the feud between a stubborn farmer and his son, which begins over the sowing of the flax field.

The Van Paemel Family (1987)
Flanders' countryside in Belgium's early decades didn't belong to the hard-working farmers, like patriarch Van Paemel, who would rather die then consider any alternative to knowing his place and responding to problems like Animal farm's donkey, toiling even harder till it kills him anyhow. He rules his family expecting similar servitude, but cruel fate sees to it that his gentle son Desiré has a terrible, ill-compensated, never trialled life-long crippling rifle-accident, reducing the good, now unproductive boy to dreaming about emigration to America in never-ending pain, at the idle hands of the hunting party hosted by the baron who owns everything, and takes like his ruling class a very dim view at the demands, spearheaded by the young Socialist party, of the less docile new generation, whose protests are put down violently by gendarmes (paramiltary police)...

Mira (1971)
The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.

Farewells (1966)
A sailor who is required to report back to ship every evening not knowing when it is going to sail has to reconcile this with his married life.

Friday (1981)
Film about a working man who returns from prison, where he has been imprisoned for incest with his daughter, to discover that his wife has had a child by a young neighbour.

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