
“Stiller starts where knowing stops.”
An Antwerp journalist finds his daily life increasingly disrupted by unexplained phenomena, such as an authentic letter from 1919 that refers to an event taking place at a much later date. Because these disturbances are consistently linked to the name “Joachim Stiller,” the journalist becomes obsessed with it. The resolution, which is closely tied to his traumatic experiences from the Second World War, takes place with a psychiatrist—and later at an abandoned railway station in an Antwerp suburb. Interwoven with this is a subplot about an Antwerp art dealer who believes he can become rich through a new form of painting. To achieve this, he takes a mentally disabled artist hostage. The narrative also follows various romantic entanglements involving the journalist, which ultimately lead to his happy experience of fatherhood.
Release Date: 11/29/1976
Runtime: 153 minutes
Languages: Dutch
Director: Harry Kümel
00Companies: AVRO Television, Belgische Radio en Televisie
Countries: Belgium, Netherlands
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Hugo Metsers
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Simone Marijnissen

Willeke van Ammelrooy
Lily
Ward de Ravet
Wiebrand Zijlstra

Charles Janssens
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Dora van der Groen
Madame Frans
Raf Reymen
Direkteur lijkenhuis
Joan Remmelts
Andreas Colijn
Peter Strynckx
Joachim Stiller

Gaston Vandermeulen
Schepen Keldermans

Bert André
Morgue Assistant

Jo De Meyere
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