Fons Rademakers
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Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Career
His 1960 film Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award.[1]
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,[2] and The Village on the River, nominated for the same award in 1959.[3] 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.[4]
He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema, after the life-support machines were switched off at his request.[5]
Filmography
- The Village on the River (Dorp aan de rivier) (1958)
- Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas (1960)
- The Knife (Het Mes) (1961)
- Like Two Drops of Water (Als twee druppels water) (1963)
- The Dance of the Heron (De dans van de reiger) (1966)
- Mira (1971)
- Because of the Cats (1973)
- Max Havelaar (Max Havelaar of de koffieveilingen der Nederlandsche handelsmaatschappij) (1976)
- Lifespan (1976)
- The Judge's Friend (Mijn vriend) (1979)
- Vrijdag (1981)
- The Assault (1986)
- The Rose Garden (1989)
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- 1920 births
- 2007 deaths
- Dutch male film actors
- Dutch male television actors
- Dutch film directors
- Dutch film producers
- Dutch male screenwriters
- Golden Calf winners
- Directors of Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners
- Silver Bear for Best Director recipients
- Dutch expatriates in Italy
- Dutch expatriates in France
- People from Roosendaal
- Deaths from emphysema
- Films directed by Fons Rademakers
- 20th-century Dutch screenwriters