Unknown Brood

Unknown Brood (2016)

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“When I do my suicide for you, I hope you’ll miss me too,” Herman Brood sang in “Rock ‘n’ Roll Junkie” – just one of many announcements of his own death Brood worked into his songs. It’s a subject Brood, who jumped off the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton 15 years ago, often sang about. In Unknown Brood, a whole range of people look back on the rock and roller’s turbulent life, including fellow musicians, his manager, a former girlfriend, photographer Anton Corbijn, Brood’s wife and their daughter. Video footage shot by Brood himself and never seen before is intercut with a rich collection of archive material, including a humorous clip of Brood barking the Dutch national anthem. His sister Beppie Brood stresses her brother’s split personality: on the one hand the shy, vulnerable man wary of other people, and on the other the one who played Herman Brood – an extravagant, hedonistic junkie and rock and roll star.

Director: Dennis Alink

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	Herman Brood as
	Frank Black as
	Bono as
	Nina Hagen as
	Anton Corbijn as
	Holly Mae Brood as
	Jules Deelder as
	Henny Vrienten as
	Xandra Brood as
	Dany Lademacher as
	Cees Meerman as
	David Hollestelle as
	Jan Schuurman as
	Dorien van der Valk as
	Bart Chabot as
	Brenda van der Biezen as
	Lola Brood as
	Koos van Dijk as
	Henkjan Smits as
	Willem Venema as

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