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55 SOCKS

By Co HOEDEMAN

Animation - Completed 2011

55 Socks director Oscar winner Co Hoedeman Based on a poem by Marie Jacobs, the animated short pays tribute to the ingenuity of the Dutch people during a dark period of their history – the winter of hunger in 1944-45.

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Animation
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Director(s)
- Co HOEDEMAN
- Producer(s)
- Laurie GORDON
- Synopsis
- Dutch girl on bicycle
  This program is rated: Not recommended for young children. 55 Socks director Oscar winner Co Hoedeman Based on a poem by Marie Jacobs, the animated short pays tribute to the ingenuity of the Dutch people during a dark period of their history – the winter of hunger in 1944-45. It’s the closing months of the war in occupied Holland and some women unravel a beautiful bedspread in order to knit 55 socks to barter for food. Reaching back into his childhood memories, Hoedeman has made a simple, poetic film of rare beauty.
  Music by Chiwawa.
  An international co-production with Coconino Netherlands and The National Film Board of Canada
- Partners & financing
- An international co-production with Coconino Netherlands and The National Film Board of Canada