Strijdmakker (2025)
February 20, 2025Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Wim Brands
Self, archive material

Karl Ove Knausgård
Self

David Sedaris
Self

David Kleijwegt
Director

Thomas Vroege
Editor

Joost Oskamp
Sound Designer

Reinier van Brummelen
Post Production Producer

Joyce Feijen
Producer
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
suicide
literature
netherlands
tribute
public television
mental health
eulogy