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Another Mother (1996)
Directed by Paula van der Oest
Drama
A widowed Latvian father's quest for a much-loved Dutch pen pal, whom he hasn't heard from in three decades, provides the basis of this comedy-drama. The father is accompanied by his traumatized and mute eight-year-old son whom he had to kidnap from a Riga hospital. Together, the two flee towards Holland where the father Yuris hopes to find his long-lost friend Marie, whom he remembers as a great beauty. During the long journey, father and son have several funny adventures, many of which occur because neither father nor son speak much Dutch. They finally arrive at Marie's door empty-handed. What they find, gives them little hope, for the lithe young idealist of Yuris' dreams has become middle-aged and cynical.
Cast
Jānis Reinis
Anneke Blok
Peter Bolhuis
Geert de Jong
Hannah van Lunteren
Theu Boermans
Pēteris Liepiņš
Kim van Zeben
Crew
- Director
- Paula van der Oest
- Writer
- Stan Lapinski, Paula van der Oest
- Producer
- René Scholten
Details
- Original title
- De nieuwe moeder
- Release date
- 1996-10-03
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- NL
- Spoken languages
- Dutch
- Countries
- Netherlands, Latvia
- Production
- SNG Film (Studio Nieuwe Gronden)