Screenwriter

Fons Rademakers

Classic Era1920–2007DramaComedyCrimeMystery

Chronicler of the Human Condition

Also directed 11 films ↗Also starred in films ↗

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The Screenplays

4 total writing credits

WRITER

Because of the Cats

1973

Writer

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Like Two Drops of Water

1963

Scenario Writer

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1973Because of the CatsWriter5.3 1963Like Two Drops of WaterScenario Writer6.4 1960That Joyous Eve...Idea5.8 1958Village by the RiverWriter6.9

About

Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. His 1960 film Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award. 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, and The Village on the River, nominated for the same award in 1959. 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. He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema, after the life-support machines were switched off at his request.

As Director

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1986The Assault 1976Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company 1973Because of the Cats 1971Mira 1963Like Two Drops of Water 1958Village by the River

As Actor

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