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Hugo Metsers — Willeke van Ammelrooij
Andrea Domburg
Pim de la Parra — Helmert Woudenberg

Wim Verstappen, 1976


After years of playing in sex-movies together,
Willeke and Hugo get decently married here

Sitting here and scanning/processing this set (what a drag, anyway), I was really amazed at the quality of it. Really my best set. Well, maybe. Wim Verstappen directed, Marc Felperlaan did 16mm camera, Fred Petri light. I had this thing going with Fred and Marc pretty much let us build the light we wished. The nicest cameraman I ever worked with - and no fool, he. Anyway, I think it shows.
Wim, or so we all thought, did not have too much interest in directing this one and so we set out to inspire him. Succeeding pretty well, sometimes. At one point he walked onto a set, saw the light and remarked: "Next time, we'll go 35mm again".
The film was a comedy and I think much better than the critics denounced it to be.
It flopped, too; which it did not deserve. Can't win 'em all.
Because I kept flying up and down between Holland and Curaçao in those years, we judged it would be safer to go back to using Ektachrome for the stills, as any lab could take it from there. As it turned out, I made the internegatives myself anyway, and the lab chief called me and complained about them. So I went over to him with the Ektachrome prints they had made from the original slides. He looked them over and capitulated, saying "You're right - the new prints are better".

We made three films in a row that one summer and it turned into factory work. I flew out the late afternoon of the last shooting day, arriving on Curaçao like a zombie.


Two brothers plus (to the right) Marc Felperlaan
with the Rittreck snugly nestled in my hand
Photo, I guess, Fred Petri


Two more of the original slides to show off the original quality



Below scans of some original Ektachrome prints.
They have kept better than the Ektacolor above, but still are of lower quality. Very contrasty.


Enjoying old age together in a bejaardentehuis
(waste-bin for elderly people)
Make-up man Ulli Ullrich told me not to get too close.

Funny story: Actress Andrea Domburg, also in VD, a really great actress, like all of us had her peculiarities. One of which was, she always wanted Evian mineral water around; so Frans Rasker took care there was. We never had any trouble with her; to the contrary, we all liked her as a very nice person.
Now, Andrea had just been working for Rob Houwer's Soldaat van Oranje/Soldier of Orange, and a good guess is she enjoyed working for him just about as much as I did. At least, she seems to have been a powerful nuisance there. So much that, when a guy working on the same Houwer production had to deliver something on our set and heard that Andrea was around, he almost shit his pants and took off in desperate flight.

credits Director - Wim Verstappen screenplay - Charles Gormley/Wim Verstappen camera - Marc Felperlaan sound - Kees Linthorst light - Fred Petri make-up - Luc de Visser/Ulli Ullrich/Ton van de Heuvel hair - Loek Limburg stills - Harrie Verstappen art direction - Inge van Santen Kolff editor - Rob van Steensel/assistant Nel Kroonbergs mixing - Peter Vink, Cinetone titles - National Screen Service laboratory - Technicolor production secretary - Guusje Prent production assistants - Remmelt Remmelts/Ninke Grünfeld     production manager - Frans Rasker assistant director - Olga Madsen production - Pim de la Parra Jr. $corpio Films, 1975, 90 minutes

cast Willeke van Ammelrooy Hugo Metsers Andrea Domburg Helmert Woudenberg Pim de la Parra Jr. Olga Zuiderhoek Henk Votel - Siem Vroom Kika Mol - Jerôme Reehuis Peter Faber - Bob Verstraete Jan van Royen - Jacques Fortuné Mady Alfredo - Marja de Heer Remmelt Remmelts - Tim Beekman Cor Meyer - Henk Uterwijk Johan te Slaa - Cees van Oyen

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