Ank van der Moer
Acting
Biography
Anna Maria ‘Ank’ van der Moer (1912 – 1983) was a Dutch actress. Considered one of the greatest Dutch actresses of the 20th century, Van der Moer was often called the ‘Queen of the Leidseplein’ (the theatre hotspot of Amsterdam). Famous for her stage performances in classic plays like Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Vondel’s Gysbrecht van Amstel, Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo and both Euripides’s and Goethe’s version of Iphigneia, she also appeared in several Dutch films.
Known For
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De TV Show
Landmark tv adaptation of Louis Couperus' "Small Souls" saga, that tells of the gradual disintegration of the once-powerful Van Lowe clan.
Small Souls
In 1910 Brussels, Mrs. Brulot and her husband, in dire financial straits, start a family guesthouse, where the guests form an international group with unclear professional incomes.
Villa des Roses
Cornelis van Doorn is the CEO of VD, a meat factory as well as a developer of contraceptives. Cornelis is the patriarch of the Van Doorn family: a decadent bunch of loose morals who only lust for money and power. When the man is thinking about retiring, he has to find the right heir to take over the family business.
VD
The story of three torn apart families on the verge of Sinterklaasavond, the Dutch equivalent of Christmas Eve.
That Joyous Eve...
When Erica Maerlant is shot dead during a secret dance rehearsal at her luxurious villa, the Maerlant household turns out to be a serpent's nest of intrigue where everyone has a motive for the murder.
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
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Officieel bezoek van koninklijk paar
This government commissioned film -- made on the occasion of the forty year anniversary of queen Wilhelmina's reign -- chronicles the lives of two Dutch families from 1898 to 1938 against the backdrop of the social and political events of the times. It shows the emergence of trade unions, the troubled years of the First World War, the development of aviation and Schiphol airport, the Dutch East Indies and the lives of the Dutch royal family.
Forty Years
An out of work engineer is hired as the private chauffeur of a rich playboy, and has to drive to Vlissingen to pick up the latter's fiancée. On the way back from Vlissingen, the car breaks down and the engineer and the fiancée travel to Rotterdam to get some spare parts -- a trip full of amorous entanglements and mistaken identities.
Song of Spring
When his colleague presents him with (forged) evidence of his wife Sylvette's unfaithfulness, factory owner Jean Sourdier kills him in a fit of rage. After fifteen years in prison he is determined to take revenge on his wife by killing Ninette, a daughter from her second marriage.