Character

Character

  • Director: Mike van Diem
  • Writer: Ferdinand Bordewijk,Laurens Geels,Mike van Diem
  • Countries of origin: Netherlands, Belgium
  • Language: Dutch, English, German, French
  • Release date: March 27, 1998
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Характер
  • The film, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is a character tragedy based on a classic Podvikic novel with authentic costumes and dark tones. The details of the film are very realistic, and the dramatic conflict is full of the complex of ancient Greek Oedipus, which effectively excavates the dark side of human nature.

    Details

    • Release date March 27, 1998
    • Filming locations Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
    • Production companies First Floor Features, Almerica Film

    Box office

    Budget

    $4,500,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $623,983

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $37,268

    Gross worldwide

    $623,983

    Movie reviews

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    • By Alexanne 2022-11-23 06:45:58

      Love is so hard.

      The dark tones of the film are like Caravaggio's pen, depicting an old event in the damp and gloomy Amsterdam.

      The law enforcement officer in the film is chilling. In his eyes only the law, without the slightest warmth. Even the marriage proposal letter was typed hard on the typewriter. Cruel, is it the right that his career has given him, or is it fate that has branded him? When a person puts on the coat of grimness, he is forced on the road of doom and has to go down.

      He...

    • By Salvador 2022-11-17 18:20:11

      about father

      On top of a sharp knife inserted into the table, Jacob flew towards his father. If this were just a story of a son who, over the years, could not bear the simultaneous torture of his father's lack of love and the shadow of patriarchy, it would not be such a laudable film.
      It was the Netherlands in the early 20th century, and the story began grimly. A cold-blooded and arrogant celibate official, a silent and humble sojourn maid, Jacob's life came at the only intersection of his parents'...

    • By Isidro 2022-11-04 09:36:31

      Karakter

      Based on the best-selling suspense novel in the Netherlands. Set in Rotterdam in the 1920s, it describes a lifelong battle between an illegitimate son and his ruthless biological father, which ends with a mysterious murder.
      A young lawyer is arrested after the assassination of a revered county lord, the lawyer claims innocence, but a gripping story unfolds when the police discover that the deceased is his father...
      Kada Zhuofu is the illegitimate son of the nephew and Yoba, the...

    • By Orrin 2022-11-03 19:52:15

      bone blood bone blood

      After watching this film, I found out about Cui Yangyi. Cui's "Blood and Bone" filmed in 2004 is too similar to this film. Basically the same story, except that the father played by Takeshi Kitano is more jerk and vulgar. This Dutch film by Mike van Diem was the best foreign language film at the Oscars in 1998, the year when "Titanic" was rampant.

      I have to say, this is the best movie I've seen in a while.

      A British media commented that the film has the height of Dickens'...

    • By Mina 2022-10-03 17:34:43

      complex role

      The tone of this film is the kind that I like, the characters to the point, the dark composition, the hysterical tension, the twisted humanity, and more importantly the repressed humanity, the entanglement of people, the strength of weakness, paranoia, The goodness of human nature.
         Many times my father's actions, when watching a movie, I can't have a clear judgment, he reminds me of the combination of Taurus and Scorpio, paranoid so terrible, hidden so unpredictable, but the kind of...

    User comments

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    • By Jimmie 2023-09-30 13:17:18

      The Netherlands at the beginning of the 20th century was very close to England, with a little bit of France. To be able to learn English without a teacher, it is estimated that the Dutch have that condition. Amsterdam features prominently: narrow streets, hanging furniture from windows,...

    • By Julien 2023-09-30 06:15:53

      7/10. The director's ability to control the relationship between characters is very sophisticated. After obtaining the lawyer's certificate, the mother and daughter strolled in the wilderness. It was rare to see bright and sunny colors. Most of the pictures were bluish in tone, and the environment was humid and gloomy. The silver badge on the father's neck and the father and son The lightning and thunder of fighting has long transcended individual meaning and sublimated into a symbol of the...

    • By Sid 2023-09-19 21:54:26

      In fact, behind hatred is unspeakable love. This play is really nice. Only 600 people have seen it, which is a...

    • By Julius 2023-09-13 04:09:27

      3.5 Hollywood's editing, soundtrack, filming, and even the lines are Hollywood, so it doesn't matter if you say that your tone is very sad, is it not that European is not passionate and not suitable for the occasion, so there is such a long story that is really neither beautiful nor European. . . very...

    • By Justyn 2023-08-23 20:03:17

      The image of Misty Rain is very beautiful, the story is nothing...

    Movie quotes

    • De Gankelaar: Who taught you that senseless self-chastisement? I give you the money and you take it! People who can't accept a gift have nothing to give themselves.

    • [first lines]

      Jacob Katadreuffe: I came to tell you. Today I have been sworn in as a lawyer. You must be sorry but I am sworn in and this is the last time I'll come here. Farewell for ever. You no longer exist for me.

      Dreverhaven: Congratulations.

      Jacob Katadreuffe: You congratulate me? I can't take your hand. The hand of someone who always opposed me.

      Dreverhaven: Or helped.

      [pause]

      Dreverhaven: Or helped.

    • Joba: Why don't you leave our boy in peace?

      Dreverhaven: I'll strangle him for nine-tenths, and the last tenth will make him strong.