The Northerners
Directed by Alex van Warmerdam
Produced by Pierson, Heldring & Pierson N.V., First Floor Features
A darkly comic portrait of suburban repression and eccentricity in 1960s Netherlands, where whimsy and dysfunction coexist in a community of misfits.
A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
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