The Van Paemel Family (1987) ( Het gezin van Paemel ) ( La famille Van Paemel )

The Van Paemel Family (1987) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Het gezin van Paemel
Alternate Title: La famille Van Paemel
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1987 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Paul Cammermans

Written By:
Jan Blokker
Cyriel Buysse

Actors:
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 ..... Jules
Carry Goossens ..... Maurice de Wilde
Danny Hiele ..... Zenobie
Thom Hoffman ..... Gewonde man
Carmen Jonckheere ..... Deurwaarder
Eric Kerremans ..... Romanie Van Paemel
Viviane de Muynck ..... De St. Siffredeis
Marc Peeters ..... Irma
Luc Philips ..... Boer Van Paemel
Marijke Pinoy ..... Dokter
Raf Reymen ..... Kokkin
Cecile Rigolle ..... Veldwachter
Senne Rouffaer ..... Kamiel
Jos Simons ..... Desiré Van Paemel
Jenny Tanghe ..... Eduard Van Paemel
Werther van der Sarren ..... Pastoor
Mark Van Eeghem ..... Rijkswachter
Jos Verbist
Ronny Waterschoot
Dries Wieme
Arnold Willems

Synopsis:

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.

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)...

The van Paemel Family (Dutch: Het gezin van Paemel) is a 1986 Belgian historic drama directed by Paul Cammermans, based on a play written by Cyriel Buysse.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 01 August, 2014.