Fons Rademakers
Directing
- Born
- September 5, 1920 · Roosendaal, Netherlands
- Died
- February 22, 2007 (age 86)
Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter.
His 1960 film Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award.
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During a career spanning several decades he directed 11 films, including The Assault, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, and The Village on the River, nominated for the same award in 1959. Making him both the first Dutch director to be nominated and win this award.
He granted a wide-ranging interview to Radio Netherlands in 1987.
He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema, after the life-support machines were switched off at his request.
Known for
The Assault
February 6, 1986
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
September 9, 1976
Because of the Cats
March 15, 1973
Village by the River
August 19, 1958
Like Two Drops of Water
February 21, 1963
Mira
March 4, 1971
The Knife
March 2, 1961
The Rose Garden
December 22, 1989
Diary of a Mad Old Man
March 18, 1987
That Joyous Eve...
October 26, 1960
My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter
April 4, 1979
The Dance of the Heron
April 7, 1966
Behind the camera13
- 1989The Rose Garden Director
- 1987Diary of a Mad Old Man Producer
- 1986The Assault Director, Producer
- 1979My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter Director, Producer
- 1978The Inheritance Producer
- 1976Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Director, Producer
- 1973Because of the Cats Director, Writer, Producer
- 1971Mira Director
- 1966The Dance of the Heron Director, Producer
- 1963