Louis van Gasteren Trailers

There Is No Plane to Zagreb Trailer (2012)

20 November 2012

A retrospective of events in director Louis van Gasteren’s life from 1964 to 1969, filmed by him in that period and reflected on from his vantage point over 40 years later at the age of 90.

All Rebels Trailer (1983)

03 November 1983

All Rebels paints a picture of the young people who congregated around Amsterdam’s Leidseplein square in the days before wider protest movements broke out in the late ’60s and the ’70s.

Do You Get It No. 4 Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

Footage of a sunny village square in Sardinia leads to humorous, philosophical reflections on reality and the role of the ‘objectively recording’ documentary maker.

A New Village on New Land Trailer (1960)

01 January 1960

The municipality of Nagele came about entirely on the drawing board and is an international symbol for the makeability of the Netherlands.

Do You Get It No. 3 Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

Do You Get It No. 3 deals with the behaviour of people who notice they are being filmed, without the viewer being directly aware of this.

Overstag Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

A personal portrait of farmer and politician Sicco Mansholt (1908-1995) by his good friend Louis van Gasteren and his wife Joke Meerman.

All Birds Have Nests... Trailer (1961)

01 January 1961

This short essayistic documentary by Louis van Gasteren is an argument for the industrialised building of homes, in the typically optimistic tone of the post-war reconstruction period.

Een Zaak van Niveau Trailer (1989)

06 July 1989

Nagele Revisited Trailer (2012)

24 January 2012

Fifty years after making A New Village on New Land (1960), Van Gasteren and co-director Joke Meerman return to Nagele.

The Procedure Trailer (1965)

01 November 1965

Short documentary where a student of medicine describes an experiment for which he drilled a small hg

Gijsbrecht van Aemstel Trailer (1957)

09 January 1957

Amsterdam is besieged by an alliance of Kennemers and Waterlanders, prepared to exact heavy vengeance on lord Gysbreght van Aemstel, the last remaining murderer of count Floris V.

Now Do You Get It Trailer (1969)

07 February 1969

This movie, made in 1969, documents the shattering story of a concentration camp survivor and his severe traumatisation, treated by Jan Bastiaans M.

Warffum 22.05.62 Trailer (1962)

23 May 1962

Promotional film for the former Dutch post and telecom company PTT. The occasion was the complete automation of the Dutch telephone network on 22 May 1962.

Railplan 68 Trailer (1954)

01 January 1954

Short documentary about the construction of tramlines in the centre of Amsterdam

The House Trailer (1961)

13 December 1961

As a house is demolished, flashbacks are shown of the lives of the people who lived in it.

The Stranding Trailer (1957)

21 June 1957

In Rotterdam, Baas (Lex Goudsmit) sells a batch of fake diamonds to a gang of international con-men. They pay in dollars: a suitcase full of banknotes is sent on a ship from Rotterdam to Hamburg.

Hans, Life Before Death Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

Hans: Het Leven voor de dood (Hans, Life Before Death) is a documentary feature film about the life of the young composer Hans van Sweeden (1939-1963) and those who knew him intimately.

Jazz and Poetry Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

Short film documenting a performance by poet Ted Jones in combination with music by the Peter Kuiters Modern Jazz Group.

The Price of Survival Trailer (2003)

26 September 2003

More than thirty years ago, Louis van Gasteren made the documentary BEGRIJPT U NU WAAROM IK HUIL? about a therapeutic LSD session that professor Jan Bastiaans did with a traumatised ex-prisoner of German concentration camps.

Because My Bike Was There... Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

On 19 March 1966, a photo exhibition about the police intervention during the wedding of Beatrix and Claus opened in Amsterdam.