18° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
European perspectives 15 x 15 (2000)

DE MAN DIE ZIJN HAAR KORT LIET KNIPPEN

THE MAN WHO HAD HIS HAIR CUT SHORT

Country: Belgium
Year: 1965
Duration: 94'


Govert Miereveld, a barrister and teacher in a Flemish town, conceives a secret love for his young pupil Fran, an inaccessible beauty who will soon disappear. How the imperceptible process of Govert's mental disturbance is later accentuated by the shock of an autopsy he is forced to attend. How he recognizes Fran - or believes he recognizes her - and what ensues. How we will never know whether he really killed her.

Biography

film director

André Delvaux

Born in Louvain in 1926, he studies German language and literature with piano and composition at the Royal Conservatory in parallel, then leans towards fine arts and teaching literature, in French as well as in Dutch. As a teacher, he shoots his first amateur movies with his students. He habitually accompanies the screenings of silent films of the Royal Film Archives on the piano, leads a workshop on cinematographic language at the Solvay Institute on behalf of the University of Brussels and also makes reports for television on Polish cinema, on Fellini and on Rouch. In 1962, he takes part with Raymond Ravar, Ghislain Cloquet, Jean-Claude Batz and Jean Brismée in the creation of INSAS, the film school which produces most of the new generation of film makers.

FILMOGRAFIA

Forges (cm, 1956), Haagschool (cm, 1962), De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (1965), Les interprètes (cm, 1968), Un soir, un train (Una sera, un treno, 1968), Rendez-vous à Bray (1971), Belle (1973), Met Dieric Bouts (cm, 1975), Een Vrouw tussen Hond en Wolf (1979), To Woody Allen, from Europe with Love (1980), Benvenuta (id., 1983), Babel Opera (1985), L'Oeuvre au noir (L'opera al nero, 1988), 1001 Films (1989).

Cast

& Credits

Director: André Delvaux.
Plot: dal romanzo di Johan Daisne.
Screenplay: André Delvaux, Anna De Pagter.
Director of photography: Ghislain Cloquet.
Editor: Suzanne Baron.
Music: Frédéric Devreese.
Cast: Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hector Camerlynck, Luc Philips, Hilde Uytterlinden, Annemarie Van Dijk, Hilda Van Roose, François Bernard.
Production company: BRT Filmdienst.
In Belgio, il progetto 15x15 è stato sviluppato dal Brussels International Film Festival Leuvense-steenweg, 30, 1210 Brussels, tel. +32-2-2273983, e-mail t.bral@netcity.be
Il film è stato scelto da Marion Hänsel.
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