Public Works

1888. A luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States.

Committed – or is it pride? – the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences...

• Gijs Scholten Van Aschat
• Jacob Derwig
• Rifka Lodeizen

• Zeb Troostwijk
• Juda Goslinga
• Elisabeth Hesemans
• Joosje Duk
• Sander Van Amsterdam
• Houk Van Warmerdam
• Thomas Cammaert
• Leon Voorberg
• John Leddy
• Vilma Szécsi
• Tobias Kersloot
• Peter Blankenstein
• Anne-May De Lijser
• Herman Egbers
• René Van Zinnicq Bergmann
• Hubert Fermin
• Walter Bart

• director of photography Mark Van Aller
• editing Peter Alderliesten
• original soundtrack Merlijn Snitker
• producer Frans Van Gestel | Arnold Heslenfeld
• co-producer Dirk Impens | Judith Csernai | József Berger
• production design Hubert Pouille
• costumes Linda Bogers
• make-up & hair Mariël Hoevenaars | Hennesien Van Walderveen | Marti Antal
• line producer Han Van Der Werff | Judit Schmidt
• 1st AD Tamas Vass
• sound Kees De Groot
• 2nd AD Bea Neszmélyi
• continuity Machteld Feltmann
• gaffer Frank Van Hekken | Iván Nyitrai
• location hunter Gergő Bakos
• focus puller Ambrus Hernadi
• casting Janusz Gosschalk | Job Castelijn | Shanti Besseling | Zsolt Csutak | Elske Falkena
• grip Istvan Gyura | Jorrit Haas
• set dresser Valesca Meist
• photos on set Anouck Wolf
• based upon Publieke Werken (Thomas Rosenboom)

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