Country: Netherlands
Year: 1996
Duration: 95'


Every year during cherry time, Jan goes to stay with his Grandpa and Grandma in the country. With his distant cousin Marie, he helps his grandparents with the cherry harvest. In the year that Jan turns thirteen, everything is different. Jan is in love with Marie and Grandma has died. Grandpa mourns for Grandma and Jan can't dispose of the box of cherry bonbons the brought for Marie. It is winter when Grandpa dies. The boy returns to the village to bury his Grandfather. He meets Marie again there. A brief encounter. But enough to make him realize they will never be together. The boy starts to learn something about love.

Biography

film director

Arno Kranenborg

Arno Kranenborg was born in 1959. He graduated in 1986 from the AKI Art Academy in Enschede, in Audio-Visual Design, by directing and writing the short 16mm musical At Paris' Top. He has been involved since 1990 as director, screenwriter, producer and/or initiator with various Tv productions with his own production house Boom Film. De Kersenpluk is his first full-lenght feature.

FILMOGRAFIA

At Paris' Top (16mm, cm, 1986), OP & TOP (Tv, 1992), De Kersenpluk (1996).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Arno Kranenborg.
Screenplay: Arno Kranenborg, Steven van Galen.
Director of photography: Coert Giltaij.
Editor: Stefan Kamp.
Music: Wouter van Bemmel.
Cast and characters: Anton Starke (il nonno), Finnbar Wilbrink (Jan), Ricky Koole (Marie), Lukas Dijkema (Tabak).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Studio Nieuwe Gronden, van Hallstraat 5211, 1051 HH Amsterdam, Netherlands, tel. +31206867837, fax +31206824367.
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