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Ben Sombogaart is a Director and Boom Operator Néerlandais born on 8 august 1947 at Amsterdam (Pays-bas)
Ben Sombogaart (born 8 August 1947 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch film and TV director.
His film Twin Sisters (2002) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Il s'oriente ensuite vers la réalisation de dramatiques télévisées, ainsi que de films pour le cinéma, s'attachant toujours à traiter objectivement des sujets de société : hooliganisme, accession des jeunes peuples à l'indépendance.
En 1989, Mon père vit à Rio obtient un succès international. Considéré alors comme l'un des plus intéressants cinéastes des Pays-Bas, Ben Sombogaart se spécialise dans des films destinés à la jeunesse ou traitant de problèmes liés à l'enfance.
Selon Ben Sombogaart, « Trop souvent, les adultes sous-estiment les enfants. Car ces derniers comprennent plus que les adultes qui, souvent, ignorent l'avis des enfants, ou ne prennent pas leur opinion au sérieux. »
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Nationality Pays-bas
Birth 8 august 1947 (76 years) at Amsterdam (Pays-bas)
Awards Golden Calf, Golden Calf for Best Director
Birth 8 august 1947 (76 years) at Amsterdam (Pays-bas)
Awards Golden Calf, Golden Calf for Best Director
His film Twin Sisters (2002) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Biography
Diplômé de l'Académie néerlandaise du cinéma, il travaille comme technicien avant d'entreprendre la réalisation de documentaires. Il tourne des « portraits » ou des essais sur le comportement quotidien des gens.Il s'oriente ensuite vers la réalisation de dramatiques télévisées, ainsi que de films pour le cinéma, s'attachant toujours à traiter objectivement des sujets de société : hooliganisme, accession des jeunes peuples à l'indépendance.
En 1989, Mon père vit à Rio obtient un succès international. Considéré alors comme l'un des plus intéressants cinéastes des Pays-Bas, Ben Sombogaart se spécialise dans des films destinés à la jeunesse ou traitant de problèmes liés à l'enfance.
Selon Ben Sombogaart, « Trop souvent, les adultes sous-estiment les enfants. Car ces derniers comprennent plus que les adultes qui, souvent, ignorent l'avis des enfants, ou ne prennent pas leur opinion au sérieux. »
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The Storm (2009)
, 1h36Directed by Uwe Boll, Ben Sombogaart
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes La fin du monde, Météorologie, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films
Actors Sylvia Hoeks, Luke Perry, Lauren Holly, Katja Herbers, Barry Atsma, Monic Hendrickx
Rating62%
A terrible storm causes hundreds of dikes to break in Zeeland, resulting in the North Sea flood of 1953. Julia, a single mother living with her parents, is caught in the middle of the catastrophic flood. She is rescued from drowning and taken to safety by her neighbour Aldo, who is a member of the armed forces. However, her baby is left in a wooden box in the attic of Julia's parental home. Together Julia and Aldo return to the disaster area to look for the baby. When they finally find the box, it is empty, and they conclude that someone must have taken the child. The child ended up with a woman who recently lost her own baby in a car accident. Julia met her but because the woman did not want to lose the baby, she hid him for Julia. Eighteen years later, Julia meets her son and the woman again and she finds out what has happened.
Bride Flight (2008)
Directed by Ben Sombogaart
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Karina Smulders, Waldemar Torenstra, Anna Drijver, Rutger Hauer, Pleuni Touw, Elise Schaap
Rating69%
En 1953, un avion de la KLM gagne la course The Last Great Air Race. Comme des dizaines de jeunes femmes sont à bord pour émigrer en Nouvelle-Zélande, rejoindre leur fiancé et s'y marier, le vol est rebaptisé Bride Flight.
Crusade in Jeans (2006)
Directed by Ben Sombogaart
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Historical
Themes Time travel films, Children's films
Actors Joe Flynn, Johnny Flynn, Stephanie Leonidas, Emily Watson, Benno Fürmann, Michael Culkin
Rating60%
Dolf is a 15-year-old boy from Rotterdam who plays for the junior national football team. At the beginning of the film, Dolf and his team are playing an important championship game against the Belgian team in the German city of Speyer, which they lose because of Dolf.
Pluk and His Tow Truck (2004)
, 1h31Directed by Ben Sombogaart
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Jack Wouterse, Karin Bloemen
Rating61%
Twin Sisters (2002)
, 2h17Directed by Ben Sombogaart
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl, Ellen Vogel, Thekla Reuten, Betty Schuurman, Barbara Auer
Rating73%
The film tells the story of twin German sisters Lotte (Thekla Reuten) and Anna (Nadja Uhl) who are separated when they are six. After the death of their parents, they are "divided" between quarreling distant relatives, one being raised in the Netherlands and the other in Germany. Lotte grows up in a loving middle-class intellectual family in Amsterdam, and Anna is raised in virtual servitude by a poor Catholic peasant family in a backward area .
The Flying Liftboy (1998)
, 1h50Directed by Ben Sombogaart
Genres Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Victor Löw, Annet Malherbe, Herman Koch, Juan Carlos Vellido
Rating59%
Young Abeltje gets a job as a liftboy in a department store. His boss tells him that he may not press the elevator's top (green) button under any circumstances. One time, when Abeltje gets into trouble, he presses the button, and the elevator goes shooting out the building and flies off.
Mijn Franse tante Gazeuse (1996)
, 1h30Directed by Joram Lürsen, Ben Sombogaart
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Willeke van Ammelrooy, Loes Luca
Rating67%
The Boy Who Stopped Talking (1996)
, 1h48Directed by Ben Sombogaart
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Films about immigration, La précarité
Rating66%
Dans l'Est de Turquie, l'enfant Memo vit avec sa mère et sa petite sœur dans un village kurde. Berger et facteur, lisant le courrier aux illettrés, il a trois passions : la flûte, un mouton noir et le football.
The Penknife (1992)
, 1h30Directed by Ben Sombogaart
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Beppie Melissen, Karen van Holst Pellekaan
Rating67%
The story is about a boy who tries to return his friend's penknife back.
Allemaal tuig! (1982)
, 1h34Directed by Ben Sombogaart
Rating65%
A gang of youths is arrested by the police on charges of theft and vandalism. They must all wait at home (as a form of house arrest) to be summoned in court. Through a series of flashbacks the viewer gains insight as to how the gang lost its way.
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Dr. Pulder Sows Poppies (1975)
, 1h45Directed by Bert Haanstra
Genres Drama
Actors Kees Brusse, Dora van der Groen
Roles Boom Operator
Rating68%