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The song achieved success in many territories, including Flanders, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland where it topped the singles chart, but was a relative failure in UK where it only peaked at number 60. The song's popularity had been boosted in Germany by boxer Henry Maske using it as his theme song. [3]
Sieger is a fifteen-year-old boy, living with his widowed father, Theo, and his brother, Eddy, who, burdened with his mother's death, clashes with and acts out against his father.
The song represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. [2] The music video was recorded in the Rijksmuseum. [3] In the song, Macrooy calls for resilience and authenticity. [4] [5] The song is mostly written in English and partly in Sranan Tongo, a lingua franca in Suriname.
The film is based on the memoirs of Neel Doff (1858–1942) and was the most expensive Dutch film produced up to that time. The film was a box office success, [3] being the number one film in the Netherlands for the year [4] with 1.8 million admissions, and one of the top 10 most popular Dutch films of all time at the time. [2]
Antonia's Line (Original title: Antonia) is a 1995 Dutch feminist film written and directed by Marleen Gorris.The film, described as a "feminist fairy tale", [3] [4] [5] tells the story of the independent Antonia (Willeke van Ammelrooy) who, after returning to the anonymous Dutch village of her birth, establishes and nurtures a close-knit matriarchal community.
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The film had the biggest opening in Dutch history, grossing $1,302,819 (2,175,708 guilders) in four days from 93 screens. [4] It went on to gross $15 million in the Netherlands from 1.5 million admissions, making it the 11th-most-popular Dutch film at the time. [5] [6]
Soldier of Orange (Dutch: Soldaat van Oranje, IPA: [sɔlˈdaːt fɑn oːˈrɑɲə]), released in the United Kingdom as Survival Run, [1] is a 1977 Dutch romantic war thriller film directed and co-written by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, based on Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema's autobiographical book of the same name.