Jan de Hartog

Jan de Hartog Trailers

Somewhere in the Netherlands Trailer

Jan de Hartog (1914 – 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic. When the lead actor of the film adaptation of 'Ergens in Nederland' was mobilized and unable to perform, De Hartog stepped in and played the lead as well. In the early 1960s he moved to the United States and became a Quaker.

Most Popular Jan de Hartog Trailers

Total trailers found: 9

The Little Ark Trailer (1972)

01 March 1972

This heart-rending family-oriented drama chronicles the adventure of two Dutch children who temporarily lose their father and mother during the great flood of 1953.

The Inspector Trailer (1962)

24 May 1962

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

The Four Poster Trailer (1952)

08 October 1952

In turn-of-the-century New York, the marriage of John and Abby Edwards unfolds over the years.

The Key Trailer (1958)

28 May 1958

In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships.

I Do! I Do! Trailer (1983)

08 October 1983

Adaptation of the award-winning stage musical. The story takes place entirely in a bedroom dominated by a couple's four poster bed, taking them through fifty years of marriage, through happiness and sorrow, through good times and bad, through childbirth, parenthood, and the eventual sadness from the absence of their children.

The Fourposter Trailer (1955)

01 January 1955

The story takes place entirely in a bedroom dominated by a couple's four-poster bed, taking them through fifty years of marriage, through happiness and sorrow, through good times and bad, through childbirth, parenthood, and the eventual sadness from the absence of their children.

Das Riesenrad Trailer (1961)

25 August 1961

The story of a marriage over time, based on a play by Jan de Hartog. Maria Schell and O. W. Fischer play an aristocratic Austrian couple who meet during the imperial era and experience the first five decades of the 20th century together: temptations and transgressions, world wars, economic crisis, the death of their son in the war.

The Spiral Road Trailer (1962)

03 August 1962

A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.

Somewhere in the Netherlands Trailer (1940)

19 April 1940

Mobilization on the brink of the Second World War divides a husband and wife. When lawyer Frans van Loon is called up to join the mine clearance service he doesn't want to worry his wife and keeps it from her.