The Breath of Life (2023)
After a near-fatal accident, filmmaker Guido van der Werve muses about the highs and lows of his own life as he endures a long process of recovery. Instead of a linear narrative, Nummer achttien is structured as a series of movements: it departs from the classical documentary to present us with a series of vignettes that combine past and present, existentialist despair and deadpan humour, reflection and creativity, the joys and pains of remembering and forgetting.
Director:
Guido van der Werve
Writer:
Guido van der Werve
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Guido van der Werve as |
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Johanna Ketola as |
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Suze van Oort as |
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Mats Bakker as |
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Evan Zeldenrust as |
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Guido Pollemans as |
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Marguerite de Brauw as |
| Writing | Guido van der Werve | Screenplay |
| Editing | Denise Janzée | Editor |
| Art | Jan Jasper van Oord | Production Design |
| Production | Danielle Guirguis | Producer |
| Sound | Guido van der Werve | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Ben Geraerts | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Guido van der Werve | Director |
| Editing | Ruben van der Hammen | Editor |