De man zonder hart (clip)

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Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2018 · Film & Animation

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Director: Léo Joannon | Production Country: Netherlands, France | Year: 1937 | Production Company: France-Europe Films | FLM40853 | Film from the collection of EYE https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/film/de-man-zonder-hart 

A jealous businessman seeks revenge on his wife.
  
When his partner presents him with the (forged) evidence of his young wife Sylvette's unfaithfulness, factory owner Jean Sourdier kills him in a fit of rage. After fifteen years in prison he decided to take revenge on his wife by killing Ninette, a daughter from her second marriage. He comes to his senses just in time.
  
De man zonder hart was shot as a so-called multi version language production (miv). The first miv made by producer Hans Boekman was Klokslag twaalf. Audiences didn't generally go in for films that had been recorded in several different language versions. They felt the acting was mechanical, and the films mere factory products.

Cast: Louis de Bree | Dolly Mollinger | Elias van Praag | Greta Eigenveld | John Gobau | Lily Bouwmeester | Sam de Vries | Marie van Westerhoven | Mien Duymaer van Twist | Coen Hissink | Paul de Groot | Mies Versteeg | Louis Saalborn | Lucas Wensing | Josephine van Gasteren | Leo de Hartogh | Jacques Henley | Inge van den Boogaard | Emile van Bosch | Jan Musch (1875-1960) | Willem van der Veer | Jules Verstraete | Carla de Raet | Hein Harms | Yard van Staalduynen | Piet te Nuyl sr | Ank van der Moer

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