The Van Paemel Family
1986 · Movie · 90 min. · Belgium
Flanders' countryside in Belgium's early decades didn't belong to the hard-working farmers, like patriarch Van Paemel. He rules his family expecting similar servitude, but cruel fate sees to it that his gentle son Desiré has a terrible, ill-compensated, never trialled life-long crippling rifle-accident, reducing the good, now unproductive boy to dreaming about emigration to America in never-ending pain, at the idle hands of the hunting party hosted by the baron who owns everything, and takes like his ruling class a very dim view at the demands, spearheaded by the young Socialist party, of the less docile new generation, whose protests are put down violently by gendarmes (paramiltary police)...
Direction Paul Cammermans
Cast Frank Aendenboom · Camilia Blereau · Chris Boni · Raymond Bossaerts · Walter Claessens · Ronnie Commissaris · Juliette Van de Sompel · Jan Decleir · Andrea Domburg · Carry Goossens · Danny Hiele · Thom Hoffman · Marijke Pinoy
Soundtrack Daniel Schell
Screenplay Jan Blokker · Paul Cammermans · Hugo Claus · Cyriel Buysse
Cinematography Lex Wertwijn
Original title Het gezin van Paemel
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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