Strijdmakker
Strijdmakker

Strijdmakker

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2025
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Documentary

VPRO icon Wim Brands died on April 4, 2016. He was known to the general public as a presenter of the VPRO Boeken program and also closer, with six collections of poetry to his name. This documentary about his life and work, built entirely from archive material, pays tribute to this television personality. A portrait in which attention is also paid to his complicated relationship with death. With a.o. Karl Ove Knausgård, David Sedaris, Ellen Deckwitz and Pieter Boskma. Brands' work merges with his rich inner life and that he chose death at the age of 56 casts a shadow over everything.

Production

VPRO

Cast

Wim Brands

Wim Brands

Self, archive material

Karl Ove Knausgård

Karl Ove Knausgård

Self

David Sedaris

David Sedaris

Self

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