The Debut (1977 film)

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Het Debuut
Directed by Nouchka van Brakel
Written byNouchka van Brakel
Carel Donck
Produced byRené Solleveld
Matthijs van Heijningen
StarringMarina de Graaf
CinematographyTheo van de Sande
Edited byAugust Verschueren
Music byRon Westerbeek
Release date
  • 18 May 1977 (1977-05-18)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryNetherlands
LanguageDutch

Het Debuut ('The Debut') is a 1977 Dutch drama film based on a Hester Albach's novel and directed by Nouchka van Brakel. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Plot summary

A 14 year old girl and a 41 year old friend of her father's fall in love, and soon their relationship grows into a sexual one as well. For some time all is happy, but then the tension grows too much, because of the secrecy and frustration of being the lover of a married man, and because she feels he starts to treat her too much like a child instead of a lover.

Cast

Production

News of the film version began to pick up steam in November 1976 when De Telegraph ran a full-page article on the film's casting. Nouchka van Brakel wanted an unknown for the lead, though. It was essential that the part not be played by a recognizable actress. A week before Christmas, 1976, De Telegraph announced 17-year-old Marina de Graaf as the actress who Van Brakel had cast. [5]

Reception

"Het Debuut was one of the top three Dutch films of 1977." [6] The film, "Nouchka's first full - length film, (is) a confident justification of her belief that a woman can render her sex much more precisely on screen than a male director can", according to Dutch Cinema: An Illustrated History. [7]

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References

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