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The Sorrow of Belgium (Dutch: Het verdriet van België) is a 1983 novel by the Belgian author Hugo Claus (1929–2008). The book, widely considered Claus's most important work and "the most important Dutch-language novel of the twentieth century", [1] is a Bildungsroman which explores themes around politics and growing up in Flanders around World War II .
- Hugo Claus
- 1983
Het verdriet van België: With Marianne Basler, Damiaan De Schrijver, Mathias Engelbeen, Dirk Roofthooft.
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Recounts the story of the emotional, sexual, and political coming of age of Louis Seynaeve, during the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II. Adaptation of Hugo Claus’s monumental bestseller.
90' - 1994 - Drama - Dialogue: Dutch. The Sorrow of Belgium is a television series in three episodes, based on the novel by Hugo Claus, directed by Claude Goretta. Louis Seynhaeve is educated in a strict, religious boarding-school, and after that, in a Jesuits college. He is a precocious child, hiding his sorrows underneath a seeming indifference.
Jun 16, 2019 · Filmed at Koning Boudewijnstadion in Brussels, Belgium on June 16, 2019. Subscribe for more videos: https://metallica.lnk.to/subscribeListen to Metallica: h...
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Hugo Claus: Het verdriet van België (The Sorrow of Belgium) This long novel is set in Belgium from shortly before the beginning of World War II to shortly after its end. Its aim is fairly clear – to show the hypocrisy and pettiness of the Flemish Belgians during this period, not in a satirical or bitter way (though both aspects have their role to play) but in a relatively straightforward ...
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Mar 18, 2021 · March 18, 2021. A year ago, filming was hardly a priority for most theater companies. Luk Perceval’s “Sorrows of Belgium” trilogy, commissioned by the Belgian company NTGent, shows how fast ...
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