Josse De Pauw
Birthday: Born in 1952-03-15 in Asse, Flanders, Belgium
Deathday: Alive
Josse De Pauw (born in Asse in 1952), is a versatile Belgian artist and actor. He is married to modern dance performer Fumio Ikeda. Description above from the Wikipedia article Josse De Pauw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Chaussée d'Amour
Character: Willy Knapen
When her marriage fails Sylvia is forced to move with her children into a brothel on the Chaussée d'Amour. Out of financial necessity she decides to exploit the bar. Meanwhile a detective tries to solve an old murder case....
Koning van de Wereld
Character: Oom Platon
The story of Stan Vandewalle, who's on his way to becoming a sports hero. On his way to the top he encounters many challenges: keeping up appearances, easy women, alcohol, drugs and money... lots of money....
Lockdown
Character: Franky
Each short story plays in the same setting with 2 characters, each on their side of the glass of the visitors area from a prison that them (and also the world) divides....
Zwarte sneeuw
Character: Ludo
Black Snow is a Dutch television series that was broadcast in 1996 by the NCRV. Eva Bender (Tamar van den Dop) works as an au pair in France . When she has her friend Tessa (Ariane Schluter) as a guest, she is also visited by her parents (Tom Jansen and Truus te Selle) who are clearly worried about something. They don't want to tell Eva what happened yet and a day later they have an accident in which her mother dies and her father falls into a coma. After this, Eva goes looking for her parents'...
De Ronde
Character: Rik Abeloos
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De Twaalf
Character: Ari Spaak
Twelve ordinary people are called for jury duty for a controversial murder case....
Wat als?
Character: Various characters
A sketch show with each sketch beginning with the question “what if.” A roller coaster of sketches that immerses you in life as it almost could be....
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Toto the Hero
Character: Pilot
80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household....
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Character:
A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love....
Brussels by Night
Character:
This is the story of a man who travels to Brussels, and meets some people with whom he spends a few days. When they all go on a day trip to the "slanting plane" of Ronquieres, all sorts of bottled up frustrations flare up....
Stronghold
Character: Deleye
An isolated farmhouse is chosen as a hide-out by criminals Jim and Charlie after an armed robbery. The Deleye family are forced to accept the situation under Jim's brutal domination....
25 Degrees in Winter
Character: Heimleter
An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had emigrated long before. They are joined by his wacky Spanish mother and cute young daughter....
Vinyan
Character: Matthias
Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles....
Pour un fils
Character: Paul
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Someone Else's Happiness
Character: Inspecteur
A village outside Brussels is rocked when a child is killed in a hit-and-run accident and its inhabitants react in a variety of ways to the tragic news....
Crazy Love
Character: Harry Voss/Vader Harry Voss eerste deel
Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who kidnapped his mother and married her on a lonely mountain peak... Later on, he'll do the same. But Harry has a lot to learn. He learns about 'being hot' and 'fucking' and about what you have to do when you're alone and 'feel the itch'. He also learns that there...
Orly
Character: Theo
At the Paris airport Orly, a woman falls for a stranger, a family heads to a funeral, a couple lose touch, a wife reads her husband’s break-up letter. All wait for their planes. Absorbed in their immediate fates, they move through the impeccably structured space, unaware of a looming threat outside....
Everybody's Famous!
Character: Jean Vereecken
Jean is a family man and factory worker who dreams of becoming a songwriter. Pinning his hopes on his teenage daughter, Marva, he takes her to singing contests in which the awkward and overweight girl struggles to belt out a tune. When Jean is suddenly fired because of cut backs, he is ashamed and even more desperate to have his daughter succeed. In a chance meeting Jean kidnaps the most famous pop star in the country and holds her hostage demanding to be heard by the music industry. Catching th...
Sailors Don't Cry
Character: Guy
Hilde earns just enough to support herself and her son, but when his father returns the troubles begin....
Flying Home
Character: Priest
Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh has tried several times to buy a champion pigeon, but the owner continues to stubbornly refuse his offer. In an attempt to gain the trust of the Sheikh, Colin offers him a deal: if he manages to convince the owner to sell the champion pigeon, the sheikh will agree to do business with Colin's company. But when Colin meets Jos, the grumpy owner of th...
I Know I'll See Your Face Again
Character: Vader
Writer Joris (the author's alter-ego) has packed in his job and left his routine. He wanders through Brussels, pretending to be in other places and as far as we can verify lying to everyone. He stays in a dead-beat motel and meets other absurd people, never to any actual end. Will it be different when he meets Luzie and falls in love?...
The Flying Dutchman
Character: Hoedelaar
Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War....
Wild Mussels
Character: Wannes
A group of friends in their early twenties re-consider their boring lives in a sleepy fishing village in the Netherlands....
Nachtdoek
Character: Ludo Jans
A tale of two gaps in a man’s life: a daughter who has left home, and a blank space on a museum wall....
Youth Without God
Character:
This French-Belgian drama, based on a novel by Odon von Horvath, is set in 1938 in a German city along the banks of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It attempts to provide insight as to why certain German youths were so easily lead into becoming Nazis by using two narrators, one a teacher who challenged the movement and another by a student who embraced it. Pabst teaches a group of teenage boys, all of whom seem to be young Nazis. The trouble begins when Pabst and a WW I vet are assigned to take the c...
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
Character: Mr. Voss
Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer father wastes the little money he has in the Imperial Poolhall and his time with the rich American widow, Hildegarde. Even though his beautiful and pious mother lets his father get away with that, even if his little brother wets the bed. Arturo loves them all. He also loves to play baseball, even though he has to wait until spring. And he also lov...
The Eighth Day
Character: Policeman of police station
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He...
Everybody Happy
Character: Big Bonzo
Burned-out comedian Ralph Hartman suffers from severe anxiety and fears he's being passed over by younger comedians. But his biggest problem comes in the form of his imaginary alter ego: a bearded, high-pitched sadist who follows him everywhere he goes....
The Pointsman
Character: De Postbode
A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language....
Cargo
Character:
'Cargo' brings the raw story of three brothers who own a family business in the fishery and are trying to save it from destruction. The passion for their profession but also for their loved ones, however, drives them to desperate actions....
Patrick
Character: Rudy
Patrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture. When Patrick loses his campsite hammer, his quest to retrieve it takes him to the farthest corners of the camping grounds....
The Passion of Darkly Noon
Character: Ringmaster
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away....
Easy in Mind
Character: Marcel
A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries....
King of the World
Character: Oom Platon
Cinema version of the 5 part TV series. During World War II, Stan Vandewalle saves boxing trainer Max from the bombed German war prisoners camp, and shoots two German soldiers while escaping. After the war, Stan resolves to put all his frustration over the death of his slow-witted brother Aloïs, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, with his side-car against a farmer's truck in making come true Aloïs other dream, to see Stan becoming 'king of the world' as boxer....
Kursk
Character: Vadim Markov, Anton's Father
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts....
Beck – De gesloten kamer
Character: Gilles
A police officer investigates the case of a man shot dead in a room locked from the inside. A suicide? Then where's the gun?...
Last Call
Character: Casper Vogel
Old entertainer gets a last chance to play a serious role....
Cheese
Character: Frans Laarmans
Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company....
Especially on Sunday
Character: Lupo
Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her newly-wed son and daughter-in-law; a German tourist tries to seduce a younger nurse. The fourth segment was cut in the US by its distributor Miramax....
Charlatan
Character: Voice over narration
3-part documentary on the life of Belgian singer Arno Hintjens....
Peckerhead
Character:
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