Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Dutch
- Country
- Netherlands
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Dutch — subtitles on.
The story
In the late 19th-century, the Tippel family moves to rural Stavoren in search of greener pastures. However, their dreams are quickly shattered, as teenage Katie is terrorized by a male-dominated society who only see her as an object. Her situation worsens when, following her father's sacking and her elder sister's descent into alcoholism, her mother decides that, rather than starving, Katie becomes a prostitute.
- rape
- amsterdam
- netherlands
- dysfunctional family
- poverty
- based on memoir or autobiography
- period drama
- forced prostitution
- historical drama
- sanitorium
- 19th century
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Monique van de Ven
Keetje Tippel
Rutger Hauer
Hugo
Andrea Domburg
Keetje's moeder
Hannah de Leeuwe
Mina, Keetje's zus
- Jan Blaaser — Keetje's vader
- Eddie Brugman — Andre
- Carry Tefsen — Vrouw in wasfabriek
- Peter Faber — George
- Mart Gevers — Cheffin hoedenatelier
- Walter Kous — Pierre
- Paul Meijer — Hoofd wasfabriek
- Jan Retèl — Dokter
- Fons Rademakers — Klant
- Riek Schagen — Geest
- Jennifer Willems — Antoinette
- Directed
- Paul Verhoeven
- Written
- Gerard Soeteman
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 58 ratings
- Studio
- Rob Houwer Film Holland
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
