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TIRZA

By Rudolf VAN DEN BERG

Drama - Completed 2009

Jörgen Hofmeester is desperately looking for his missing daughter Tirza and heading towards a brutal confrontation with the man who has been the undoing of his favorite child.

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS, NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA
- Languages
- DUTCH, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Director(s)
- Rudolf VAN DEN BERG
- Writer(s)
- Rudolf VAN DEN BERG, Arnon GRUNBERG [NOVEL]
- Cast
- Gijs SCHOLTEN VAN ASCHAT, Sylvia HOEKS, Johanna TER STEEGE, Abbey HOES, Keitumetse MATLABO
- Producer(s)
- Jeroen KOOLBERGEN (Cadenza Films), San FU MALTHA (Fu Works Productions), Brigid OLEN (DO Productions - LP South Africa), Mardou JACOBS
- Synopsis
- Jörgen Hofmeester has just lost his job, and his favorite daughter Tirza is leaving on a trip to Africa with her new Moroccan boyfriend. When Jörgen doesn’t hear from his daughter for a few weeks, the over-bearing father desperately heads to Namibia to find her. Slowly becoming unhinged in the desert heat, Jörgen starts mixing past and present, hallucinating in a booze-soaked fever. His only ally in the delusional adventure is a child prostitute who helps him in his search. Based on the masterful novel by Arnon Grunberg, this exploration of white middle-class angst is full of dark turns and unsettling twists (2010 Official Oscar Submission). Director: Rudolf van den Berg; script based on the novel by Arnon Grunberg; producer: Jeroen Koolbergen. In Dutch with English subtitles