It's All So Quiet

Boven is het stil

Helmer, a single farmer in his fifties, lives with his aged, bedridden father in the Dutch countryside. The routine of his working days changed by the visits of milk collector Johan, a man of his own age for whom Helmer holds a secret fascination, but also by the arrival of an adolescent farmhand who comes to help him out at work in the farm. The genealogy and inescapable nature of fragile masculinity, through a quiet female take.
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Direction: Nanouk Leopold
Script: Nanouk Leopold, based on the novel of the same title by Gerbrand Bakker
Cinematography: Frank van den Eeden
Editing: Katharina Wartena
Sound: Andreas Hildebrandt
Music: Paul M. van Brugge
Actors: Jeroen Willems, Henri Garcin, Wim Opbrouck, Martijn Lakemeier, Lies Visschedijk
Production: Circe Films, N279 Entertainment
Producers: Stienette Bosklopper, Els Vandevorst
Co-production: Coin Film, VPRO Television
Co-producers: Herbert Schwering
Costumes: Manon Blom, Ute Paffendorf
Executive producer: Elsje de Bruin
Camera: Bart Bleuze
Make Up: Heike Ersfeld, Rob Hillenbrink, Marly van de Wardt
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Netherlands, Germany
Production Year: 2013
Duration: 93΄
Contact: Playtime, info@playtime.group

Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk Leopold (1968, Netherlands) is an established figure in Dutch art house cinema. She studied Directing at the Dutch Film and Television Academy. She won the Tuschinski Award for her graduation film Weekend (1998) as well as the Kodak Prize at the Munich Film Festival. She worked as a director in Dutch television before making her feature film debut with her feature debut Îles flottantes. In cooperation with visual artist Daan Emmen, she started “Beeldcollectief Leopold Emmen” which led to the film Close-up (2009). Her film It’s All So Quiet, based on the novel by Gerbrand Bakker, was the opening film of the Panorama Special programme at the Berlinale in 2013, going on to win awards worldwide (it was also screened in the 54 Thessaloniki IFF’s “Open Horizons” program). Her latest film Cobain, a coming-of-age drama, made a sensation in the 68th Berlinale in 2018, where it premiered.

Filmography

1998 Weekend
1999 Max Lupa
2000 Îles flottantes
2005 Guernsey
2007 Wolfsbergen
2010 Brownian Movement
2013 Boven is het stil | It's All So Quiet
2018 Cobain