A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
Boycotted and covertly censored by the producers and directors who formed part of the Commissione ministeriale, which decided on which short should accompany features in cinema programmes at the time, Essere Donne was a commission from the Communist-aligned production company Unitele
Beppie is the name of the young girl living next door to the van der Keuken family. He films her as she roams around Amsterdam and playfully disjoints the world around her.
“Dag Bep, kom binnen!”
“Dag meneer van Keuk!”
“Dag Beppie.”
Francois is a young carpenter married with Therese. They have two little children. All goes well, life is beautiful, the sun shines and the birds sing. One day, Francois meets Emilie, they fall in love and become lovers.
Family man Govert Miereveld is a teacher at a girls' school, secretly in love with his pupil Fran. One day she disappears and his fancy becomes an obsession.
Aaron Gerow: Among the members of the Ao no Kai, there were many directors who left Iwanami to go independent.
Pierrot escapes his boring environment and decides to travel to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. For a while they live there life, forever on the run.
“With the camera, I can only show a house hunter’s outside, but what matters is his inside, how life inside him is decaying like a pile of rotten lettuce.”
Johan van der Keuken
