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Bert Haanstra
Writer 1916 - 1997

Bert Haanstra

Espelo, Overijssel, the Netherlands

Albert 'Bert' Haanstra was a Dutch film director of films and documentaries. His documentary Glass (1958) won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. His feature film Fanfare (1958) was the most visited Dutch film at the time, and has since only been surpassed... Read full bio →

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De stem van het water

De stem van het water

Bert Haanstra 1966 1h 32m

The Netherlands and water, they are inseparable from one another. Water in its soothing form, as a place of work and pleasure and as a source of threat and misery. Bert Haanstra thought it a great subject for a big cinema documentary and made The Voice of the Water.

Glas

Glas

Bert Haanstra 1958 10m 6.0

Documentary about Dutch glass production in the 50s.

Fanfare

Fanfare

Bert Haanstra 1958 1h 26m 10.0

After a fight the brass band in a small village splits up into two separate bands. They both want to win a contest and will do anything to prevent the other band from winning it.

Spiegel van Holland

Spiegel van Holland

Bert Haanstra 1950 9m

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again in the film. By doing this, we see the ‘usual’ waterfront, but transformed by the rippling of the water.

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