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The Arrival of Joachim Stiller (1976)

★ 6.5/10 153 min Mystery Belgium, Netherlands Dutch
Director: Harry Kümel
Streaming: Not available
Stiller starts where knowing stops.

Description

An Antwerp journalist finds his daily life increasingly disrupted by unexplained phenomena, such as an authentic letter from 1919 that refers to an event taking place at a much later date. Because these disturbances are consistently linked to the name “Joachim Stiller,” the journalist becomes obsessed with it. The resolution, which is closely tied to his traumatic experiences from the Second World War, takes place with a psychiatrist—and later at an abandoned railway station in an Antwerp suburb. Interwoven with this is a subplot about an Antwerp art dealer who believes he can become rich through a new form of painting. To achieve this, he takes a mentally disabled artist hostage. The narrative also follows various romantic entanglements involving the journalist, which ultimately lead to his happy experience of fatherhood.

Top Cast

Hugo Metsers
Hugo Metsers Freek Groenevelt
Cox Habbema
Cox Habbema Simone Marijnissen
Willeke van Ammelrooy
Willeke van Ammelrooy Lily
Ward de Ravet Wiebrand Zijlstra
Charles Janssens
Charles Janssens Siegfried
Dora van der Groen
Dora van der Groen Madame Frans
Raf Reymen Direkteur lijkenhuis
Joan Remmelts Andreas Colijn

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