Het grote gebeuren

'Het grote gebeuren' could be translated very loosely to 'the main event' but that would trigger a reference to a film with no connection whatsoever. A better translation would be perhaps 'The apocalypse as imagined with the tiniest budget possible'. It nevertheless made a big impression when I saw it as a teenager on Dutch television. The narrator tells how the end of the world came about to be in the Town of Rijssen in Eastern Holland. Actually, that is no more then 30 miles from where I live , but let's not digress. The budget for this TV-film must have been absolutely minimal. The whole film consists of narration and the most primitive effects possible, but since the narration is by Kees Brusse this is no punishment. The man can count to a 1000 and still keep your attention through the numbers. At the most basic level, I guess the story just tells us that one day our time is up and each of us will have the ticket we deserve by how we lived our lives. At the time I saw this it made a lot of sense and an everlasting imprint.