Elias or the Fight with the Nightingales (1991)
Elias has hardly left his childhood behind him than he is sent to boarding school with his older cousin. But before that he spends his holidays on the isolated estate belonging to his family, a little group fully out of touch with the world. —Hannelore Goossens
Director: Klaas Rusticus
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Brikke Smets as Elias |
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Jimmi de Koning as Aloysius |
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Lotte Pinoy as Hermine |
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Bien de Moor as Tante Henriette |
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Viviane de Muynck as Tante Zenobie |
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Roland Ramaekers as Oom Augustin |
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Toon Brouwers as Vader |
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Marie-Louise Conings as Huishoudster |
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Mia Van Roy as Moeder |
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Cara Van Wersch as Grootmoeder |
| Directing | Klaas Rusticus | Director |
| Production | Hans Otten | Producer |
| Production | Willem Thijssen | Producer |
| Writing | Fernand Auwera | Scenario Writer |
| Writing | Klaas Rusticus | Scenario Writer |
| Writing | Maurice Gilliams | Novel |
| Sound | Jan Brandts Buys | Music |
| Editing | Peter Rump | Editor |
| Crew | Jan Vancaillie | Cinematography |