Dood Water

1934 film

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26 October 1934 (1934-10-26)

Running time

106 minutesCountryNetherlandsLanguageDutch

Dood Water is a 1934 Dutch drama film directed by Gerard Rutten.

Cast

Jan Musch ... Willem de Geus
Theo de Maal ... Jaap de Meeuw (as Teo de Maal)
Betsy Ranucci-Beckman ... Aaf de Meeuw
Arnold Marlé... Dirk Brak
Max Croiset ... Jan Brak
Helga Gogh ... Maartje Brak
Johan Schilthuyzen
Jules Verstraete

Reception

The film won the Coppa Istituto Luce at Venice Film Festival (1934), for best cinematography, by Andor von Barsy.

Writing for The Spectator, Graham Greene praised the film's documentary prologue as "an exciting piece of pure cinema", and commented that the story which follows "has some of the magnificent drive one felt behind the classic Russian films, behind Earth and The General Line: no tiresome 'message', but a belief in the importance of a human activity truthfully reported". Greene also noted, however, that "the photography is uneven: at moments it is painfully 'arty', deliberately out of focus".^[1]

References

^ Greene, Graham (6 September 1935). "Dood Wasser/Me and Marlborough". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 18–19. ISBN 0192812866.)