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The Arm of Jesus

World Cinema

Family · Suspense/Mystery · History

  • CountryNetherlands
  • Production Year2002
  • Running Time72m
  • Format35mm
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
In a mixture of Brechtian musical elements, special archive material and a surrealistic theatrical atmosphere, The Arm of Jesus tells the story of Hendrik Yzermans, a European miner who steals his colleague′s wages to pay for a ticket to America. Using found footage, the film transports the viewer to a lost life as it happened. Years later, Hendrik′s deserted son Jakob, travels to the United States to search for his missing father, but cannot find him. When Jakob has to leave Chicago for a business trip to Rotterdam, fate has a surprise in store for the younger man. A game with time across two contrasting lives, The Arm of Jesus plays with real and imagined life using archival film to illustrate the irretrievable history that we can recall, but cannot witness directly. Simultaneously, the film contrasts that irrevocable truth with our persistent attempt to alter the past through our actions in the present.
Director
Director
André VAN DER HOUT
André VAN DER HOUT was born in Maassluis, the Netherlands(1958). He studied history at Arasmus University in Rotterdam. He has made films on Super8, documentaries for NOS TV and has made spatial presentation forms for museums and exhibitions. His short film DE OVERKANT was nominated for Golden Calf at the Dutch Film Festival in 1998.
Credit
  • Director
    André VAN DER HOUT
  • CastHuug Van Tienhoven
    Ferry Heyne
    Frank Van Den Bos
  • ScreenplayAndre Van Der Hout
  • CinematographyAdri Schrover
  • Production DesignGert Brinkers
  • EditorAndre Van Der Hout
    Adri Schrover
  • MusicDe Kift
    Ferry Heyne
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