Meet the Fokkens ( Ouwehoeren ) ( Katevase ta kokkina fanaria )

Meet the Fokkens (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ouwehoeren
Alternate Title: Katevase ta kokkina fanaria
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
80 min + 40 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Gabrielle Provaas
Rob Schröder

Written By:
Rob Schröder
Gabrielle Provaas

Actors:
Louise Fokkens ..... Herself
Martine Fokkens ..... Herself

Synopsis:

Louise and Martine Fokkens are 70-year-old identical twins. For 50 years they've worked as prostitutes in Amsterdam's Red Light District. In their long and illustrious careers, they helped establish the first trade union for prostitutes, freed themselves from their pimps and ran their own brothel. Despite being inseparable, Louise has decided to retire from the business and is adjusting to a new life away from sex work. Martine carries on, still needing the money. A different type of clientele visits these local celebrities, as Martine allows us inside her booth to see her day-to-day working life and the men who inhabit it. Now these matriarchs find themselves facing an industry from the outside as it changes beyond recognition, the old set of values they were used to long gone. Meet the Fokkens is a peek behind the curtains of two ladies who have seen and done it all.

Sisters doing it for themselves in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over fifty years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam's Red Light District, but soon they will bid their farewells. The Ladies Fokkens is a portrait of these remarkable women, as well as a history of the Red Light District over the past fifty years.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 05 November, 2012.

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