Dutch Literature

An aimless young artist learns to face his responsibilities when a former lover develops a terminal illness.

After 21-year-old student Tonio dies in a traffic accident, his novelist parents face sorrow and regret as they suffer the agony of losing their only child.

15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to a ghetto in Amsterdam, she decides to follow them rather than live with her brother and his girlfriend. She also keeps in touch with Greet, a girlfriend she met while in hospital, despite the fact that Greet's father is collaborating with the Germans.

The fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his backyard. It turns out the parachutist bears a remarkable resemblance to Ducker. Ducker follows Dorbeck blindly, becomes involved in the Dutch resistance and soon starts killing people. When he escapes through German lines to the freed South Netherlands, no one has ever heard of Dorbeck.

Strange things are happening in colonial Indonesia as family relations unravel in this mini-series based on the classic novel by Louis Couperus.

Eline Vere is a neurotic young woman with a turbulent family.

An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the nineteenth century is convinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people of whom he is in charge.

Maarten, a Dutch immigrant in America, is suffering from dementia and finds senility gradually robbing him of his identity.

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.

Frits van Egters' life in the last ten days of the year 1946.

Johan Ten Berghe joins the Dutch army when the Dutch East Indies unilaterally declare independence as Indonesia. He initiates his naive driver Twan in life in the East, having grown up there as son of colonial official Hendrik, now missing. Their adventures intertwine with Johan's childhood memories, especially concerning his native best friend, Oeroeg, who joined the rebellion, as well as their nanny and later de facto stepmother. Conflicting loyalties become tangible in extreme situations.

Poet Valentijn comes in contact with his former teacher Mieke. After a brief relationship Valentijn leaves her. But when he later gets to know his son, a bond develops between the two.

Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.

Reza explodes into the boring life of writer Eric, she's unpredictable and intense. After she moves in with him, jealousy and fits of bizarre self-destruction become part of her quixotic moods.

God is disappointed with the human race and wants His stone tablets back. An angel is given the assignment and, with Gabriëls help, tries to manipulate several humans on earth to get his job done. But humans have a will of their own.

After signing an agreement with a company that offers to end their lives when they least expect it, a dejected millionaire and a disheartened young woman fall in love and must find a way to get out of their binding contracts.

A young dropout falls in love with a nightclub dancer...

After the passing of his wife, a man learns he is infirtile and their son cannot be his.

After a death in the family turns his world upside down, an introverted young novelist struggles to maintain his relationship with his successful girlfriend.

A serial adulterer faces his demons when his loving wife falls severely ill.

A laid-off book editor sets out to find his teenage daughter when she and her boyfriend go missing on holiday in Namibia.

Two well-to-do couples with plenty to lose have dinner to discuss the gruesome act their teenage sons may or may not have committed together.

To be Chosen. That is the most important life goal in the strict religious environment of Katelijne. For her, though, reading and stories are much more important. Is she thus risking her 'Grace period'?