Frans Buyens Movie Trailers

Less Dead Than the Others Trailer (1992)

01 April 1992

Frans Buyens's moving and inventive film is based on his own autobiographical novel, which deals in the most sensitive terms possible with the subject of euthanasia.

Tango Tango Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

The adaptation of a play performed by the Stap theatre group, a company that organizes theatrical performances featuring actors with a mental disability.

Tijd om gelukkig te zijn Trailer (1982)

04 January 1982

A forty-year-old man loses his work and is unemployed. There is a continual coming and going between uncomfortable in his own skin unemployed person, his mistress - a middle-class - and an exuberant and fragile girl.

Will o' the Wisp Trailer (1973)

15 November 1973

A rainy evening in the harbor of Antwerp. A man named Laarmans is on his way home even though he doesn't want to.

Talking with Germans Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

The Belgian documentarian Frans Buyens interviewed passers-by in East Berlin and Dresden, factory workers and technical draftswomen at the Warnow shipyard in Stralsund, small business owners in Chemnitz, LPG farmers in the countryside, foreign students at the Gottfried Herder Institute in Leipzig and industrial workers in Magdeburg and Eisenhuettenstadt.

Janssen & Janssens draaien een film Trailer (1990)

01 November 1990

A documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema.

In naam van de Führer Trailer (1978)

11 May 1978

This film deals with the fate of children during the Second World War. The Nazis divided children into two categories: “the good ones,” the Aryan children, and “the bad ones,” the others.

Un jour les témoins disparaîtront Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Following the archival horror of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, this poignant documentary chronicles a study trip organized by the Belgian Auschwitz-Birkenau Association.

Ieder van ons Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

The deeply socially engaged documentary filmmaker Frans Buyens had long dreamed of making the transition to fiction filmmaking.

Wondershop Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

A miserable man owns a secondhand store. He is mean to his customers and to his assistant. One day, a boy and a girl come into the shop to sell a golden watch they are very fond of.

Waar de vogeltjes hoesten Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

'Waar de vogelstjes hoesten' is a rare, satirical fable presented as a fantasy musical. The film tells the surreal love story of a flower girl and a scarecrow who leave their rural home for the big city.

A Man Called Ernest Mandel Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

An interview with Ernest Mandel directed by Frans Buyens in 1972.

Frits Van den Berghe Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

A compilation film, divided into four separate segments, that explores the life and work of the Flemish expressionist painter Frits Van den Berghe (1883–1939).

Sarah dit... Leïla dit... Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

This film deals with the experiences of children in concentration camps. The more so because it discloses, above all, circumstances that have hitherto been almost completely untold, namely the fate of children in the camps under the Japanese occupation during World War II.

Open Dialoog Trailer (1971)