7 DE GROTE VAKANTIE Die Großen Ferien The Long Holiday Regie: Johan van der Keuken Land: Niederlande 1999. Produktion: Pietervan Huystee Film & Synopsis TV. Regie, Kamera: )ohan van der Keuken. Ton: Noshka van der In October 1998, Johan van der Keuken called his doc - Lely. Schnitt: Menno Boerema. tor (the head of radiotherapy) at the Academic Hospital Format: 35mm, 1:1.66, Farbe. Länge: 145 Minuten, 25 Bilder/Sek. in Utrecht from Paris and heard that he only had a few- Uraufführung: Januar 2000, Filmfestival Rotterdam. years to live. Prostate cancer cells had taken hold in his Sprachen: Niederländisch, tibetanis< h, englisch, französisi h. son- body. ray, moree. Van der Keuken has travelled the world for years with Ins Drehorte: Nepal, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Mali, Brasilien, USA und wife Nosh van der Lely. She held the microphone and die Niederlande. recorder, he wielded the camera. Together they decided Weltvertrieb: Ideale Audience Distribution (Susanna Scott), 13 to spend the rest of their precious time looking and lis• rue Portefoin, 75003 Paris, Frankreich. Tel.: (33-1) 42 77 89 70. tening. At Christmas they set off for Bhutan. Johan van Fax: (33-1) 42 77 36 56. E-mail:
[email protected] der Keuken regarded the film they were embarking on as a chronicle of his own view of the world, made all the Inhalt more urgent by his own mortality. Later in the film - and Im Oktober 1998 rief Johan van der Keuken seinen Arzt (den in his life - things take a turn for the better, when Johan ( hefarzt der Abteilung Strahlentherapie) an der Universitätsklinik finds a new medicine in the United States that drastically in Utrecht von Paris aus an und erfuhr, daß er nur noch einige increases his chanc es of sur\ iv al.