Poster from TMDB
Character
Sign in to save1997 film directed by Mike van Diem
OverviewAI-generated
Character, known in its original language as Karakter, is a Belgian-Dutch drama film written and directed by Mike van Diem, set in the Netherlands and filmed in Amsterdam. Its cast included Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt, Victor Löw and Tamar van den Dop, with cinematography by Rogier Stoffers, spoken in German, French and English.
Released in 1997 with a budget of 4,500,000 dollars, the film won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. It was also distributed by Netflix on video on demand, and is recognised in the Academy Award Best International Feature collection.
Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, TMDb, OMDb, IMDb, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Film · TMDB
7.4In pre-WWII Holland, the penniless, illegitimate son of a powerful bailiff sets out to become a lawyer as he spends a lifetime struggling to prove his worth to his relentlessly spiteful father.
Cast
- Jan Decleir as Dreverhaven
- Fedja van Huêt as Katadreuffe
- Betty Schuurman as Joba
- Tamar van den Dop as Lorna Te George
- Victor Löw as De Gankelaar
- Hans Kesting as Jan Maan
Themes
- law and ethics
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Ratings
IMDb
7.7/10
11,754 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
- Year
- 1997
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 18 wins & 7 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Mike van Diem
- Written by
- Mike van Diem Laurens Geels Ruud van Megen
- Based on
- Karakter , by Ferdinand Bordewijk
- Produced by
- Laurens Geels
- Starring
- Jan Decleir Fedja van Huêt Betty Schuurman Tamar van den Dop Victor Löw Hans Kesting
- Cinematography
- Rogier Stoffers
- Edited by
- Jessica de Koning
- Music by
- Het Paleis van Boem
- Production companies
- First Floor Features Almerica Film NPS
- Distributed by
- Buena Vista International
- Release date
- 17 April 1997 ( 1997-04-17 )
- Running time
- 122 minutes
- Countries
- Netherlands, Belgium
- Language
- Dutch
- Budget
- $4.5 million
- Box office
- $713,413
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Netherlands
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Mike van Diem
- Cinematographer
- Rogier Stoffers
- Narrative location
- Netherlands
- Filming location
- Amsterdam
- Duration
- 125
- FilmAffinity ID
- 293622
- Distribution format
- video on demand
Show 4 more facts
- publication date
- 2000-01-06
- title
- Karakter
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 92%
Sources (12)
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Character (Dutch: Karakter) is a 1997 Dutch-Belgian historical drama film directed by Mike van Diem from a script he co-wrote with Laurens Geels and Ruud van Megen. It is based on the best-selling novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards. The film stars Fedja van Huêt, Jan Decleir, and Betty Schuurman.
Plot
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Character” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (6)
Available in 30 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- Armenian
- azb
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Central Kurdish
- Egyptian Arabic
- Finnish
- Galician
- Lithuanian
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0