Birgit Schuurman is a Dutch singer and actress.
Bracha Semeyns de Vries van Doesburgh is a Dutch actress. She is well known for her film roles in Too Fat Too Furious, Het Schnitzelparadijs and Dick Maas's Moordwijven. On television, she portrayed Fatima in the prime time series S1NGLE.
Interview is a 2003 Dutch drama film, directed by Theo van Gogh, starring Katja Schuurman and Pierre Bokma. The film is about a war correspondent having an interview with a soap opera actress.
Katja Schuurman is a Dutch actress, singer and television personality.
Peter Bell: The Movie is a 2002 Dutch family comedy film written and directed by Maria Peters, based on the Pietje Bell books by Chris van Abkoude.
Alles is Liefde is a 2007 Dutch romantic comedy film directed by Joram Lürsen, and starring Carice van Houten, Paul de Leeuw, Wendy van Dijk, and Daan Schuurmans.
De Zeemeerman is a 1996 Dutch comedy film directed by Frank Herrebout. The movie revolves around a young man who has a hard time getting girls because he permanently smells of fish. The cure, offered by a mad professor, turns him into a male mermaid, or mer-man.
No Trains No Planes is a 1999 Dutch drama film directed by Jos Stelling.
Ahmed Salah Abdelfatah is a Dutch actor raised in France who has Moroccan-Yemenite roots. He is usually typecast to play an old Moroccan man, either an imam or a grandfather. He lives in Amsterdam, is married and has a daughter and a son. He has acted in the following productions:
The Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize is a literary award, presented annually by the Jan Campert Foundation to the author of the best Dutch prose book. The prize was established in 1948 as the Vijverberg Prize, before being named after the Dutch author Ferdinand Bordewijk in 1979. As of 2024 the prize includes a cash prize of €6000.
Kees van Beijnum is a Dutch writer. He grew up in Amsterdam, where his mother had a bar near the Zeedijk. Before he became a writer, he was a journalist. He made his debut as a novelist in 1991 with Over het IJ, a non-fiction novel about a murder case in Amsterdam.
Nam Kee is a chain of three Chinese restaurants in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The original restaurant opened at the Zeedijk in 1981, followed by restaurants at the Geldersekade 117 in 1992 and at the Marie Heinekenplein 4 in 2010. The name means "Friend Nam" in Chinese, after the owner Nam Chan.
Zeedijk is a street in the old centre of Amsterdam. The street is the northern and eastern boundary of De Wallen red-light district and runs between Prins Hendrikkade and Nieuwmarkt. Historically an area riddled with crime and drug addicts, the area went through a revitalization and is now the main street of Amsterdam's Chinatown, where locals come to eat at Vietnamese, Thai and Chinese restaurants. The Zeedijk neighbourhood is also known as the Nautical Quarter because of its past as a sailors' neighbourhood.
Maartje Boudeling is a retired head chef, known for her cooking in the Michelin starred restaurant Inter Scaldes in Kruiningen, Netherlands.
Black Out is a 2012 Dutch crime action comedy film.
Hans de Weers is a Dutch television- and film producer. Apart from box office hits like Oysters at Nam Kee's and New Kids Turbo he is most notable for producing the film Antonia's Line that enjoyed critical success and several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards.
Redbad is a 2018 Dutch drama film directed by Roel Reiné. It is based on the life of Radbod, an early medieval Frisian leader. The film was intended as the middle part of a trilogy about iconic Dutch/Frisian heroes, starting with the film Michiel de Ruyter, about the 17th century admiral Michiel de Ruyter and ending with an unmade film about William of Orange.
Pirates Down the Street is a 2020 Dutch film directed by Pim van Hoeve. The film is based on the 2011 children's book of the same name written by Reggie Naus.The film won the Golden Film award after having sold 100,000 tickets. It was the fifth highest-grossing Dutch film of 2020. It was also the sixth best visited Dutch film of 2020.
Costa!! is a 2022 Dutch comedy-drama film directed by Jon Karthaus. The film is not a sequel to the 2001 film Costa! but it takes place in the same location and has Katja Schuurman as the only original cast member. Karthaus and Diederik Jekel wrote the script of the film. It was the third best visited Dutch film of 2022 with just over 260,000 visitors.
Broken is a 2023 Dutch drama film directed by Ben Verbong. The film won the Golden Film award after having sold 100,000 tickets.
