zondag 5 juni 2022

WAT ZIEN IK

Also known as: Diary of a Hooker, Was Sehe Ich.. Was Sehe Ich…
Date: 1971
Director: Paul Vetrhoeven
Production Company: Rob Houwer Productions
Stars: Ronnie Bierman, Sylvia de Leur, Piet Romer, Bernard Droog, Eric van Ingen, Wim Kouwenhoven, Jules Hamel, Helmert Woudenberg

Storyline:
The film is about the customers and personal lives of Greet and Nel, two female prostitutes in the 70’s in Amsterdam. Greet and Nel are friends and live on different floors of the same canal house at the Prinsengracht.

Additional information:
This wasn't director Paul Verhoeven's and screenwriter Gerard Soeteman's preferred project to work on. Verhoeven had hoped to do an adaptation of a major Dutch literary work, rather than an anecdotal novel about prostitution. However, Soeteman convinced him that they could make something acceptable out of it, and that they simply needed the work. Soeteman's instincts turned out correct, as the movie became a success, and it opened the way for their next project, the critically acclaimed and commercially successful literary adaptation Turks Fruit (1973).