Angela - Love Comes Quietly (1973)
The story of a free-spirited girl who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the 1920s, even the somewhat more tolerant people of the Netherlands (relative to the rest of Europe) did not easily suffer the open flouting of the rules of society. Cheerful and optimistic, Angela (Barbara Hershey) defied the conventions of her conservative Dutch family by traipsing about the countryside with her lover, living on what turned up each day. However, even for the sunniest of optimists such an idyll can have tragic consequences.
Director: Nikolai van der Heyde
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Barbara Hershey as Angela |
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Sandy van der Linden as Harm-Wouter |
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Kitty Janssen as Louise Dijkstra |
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Ward de Ravet as Menno Dijkstra |
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Ralph Meeker as Ben Hoeksema |
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Onno Molenkamp as Vicar Dominee de Vries |
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Frans Mulder as Wiebke |
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Geert Thijssens as Jensen |
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Romain Deconinck as Waard Meindersma |
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Jacques Davidson as |
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Hanneke Reijnders as Renske de Vries |
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Fanny Winkler as Geesje |
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Hero Muller as Krolse knecht |
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Henk Obreen as Notabele |
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Roel Nijboer as Norse boer |
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Anne van der Heyden as Meisje op de spoorbaan |
| Directing | Nikolai van der Heyde | Director |
| Writing | André Kuyten | Writer |
| Production | Henk Bos | Producer |
| Production | Kees Groenewegen | Supervising Producer |
| Production | André Thomas | Producer |
| Writing | Nikolai van der Heyde | Writer |
| Sound | Georges Delerue | Music |
| Crew | Jörgen Persson | Cinematography |