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Sacha Bulthuis

Sacha Bulthuis

Acting

Biography

Sacha Bulthuis (born Alexandra Paula Maria Bulthuis) was a highly respected Dutch stage and film actress. Born into an artistic family in Doorn, her father Rico Bulthuis was a well-known writer, journalist, and puppeteer. She discovered her passion for performing early on, eventually training at the Amsterdam Theater School in the late 1960s. Bulthuis became a defining face of Dutch theater, spending decades as a prominent member of the prestigious Toneelgroep De Appel ensemble in The Hague. Throughout her illustrious stage career, she received the prestigious Theo d'Or award twice—first in 1974 for Een vleug honing and again in 1993 for Groot en klein. Beyond her extensive theatrical legacy, she transitioned seamlessly into cinema and television. She gained wide recognition for her roles in critically acclaimed Dutch films such as Fons Rademakers' Max Havelaar (1976), AmnesiA (2001), Little Crumb (1999), and the thriller TBS (2008). She was previously married to fellow theater director and actor Aus Greidanus, with whom she had children who also followed in their acting footsteps. Sacha Bulthuis passed away from cancer in 2009 at the age of 61.

Known For

Little Crumb
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The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb. His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien filled with shame was forced to turn him over to Mrs. Koster soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before shell feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways. Sometimes he has to run off from the police and he has earned the enmity of the most grownups around him.

Little Crumb

1999Movie