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Egg

03/18/1988

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0hr 58min

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STORY

The Egg is a short (58 minute) and sweet seriocomedy from Holland. Johan Leysen plays a shy, illiterate baker who desires an education. Marijke Veugelers portrays the equally shy schoolteacher who endeavors to teach Leysen how to read. Love blooms, and the results, while not always happy, are aesthetically more pleasing than in the similarly plotted Jane Fonda/Robert De Niro starrer Stanley and Iris. Most prints of The Egg are in Dutch with English subtitles, which is as it should be; any attempt to dub these characters with Americanized voices would dissipate the film's fragile charm.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Johan Leysen
  • Marijke Veugelers
  • Adri de Bruijn
  • Peter Smits
  • Coby Timp

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • SNG Film (Studio Nieuwe Gronden)

      Production Countries

    • Netherlands

    LANGUAGES

      Cast

      Johan Leysen

      Johan

      Marijke Veugelers

      Eva

      Adri de Bruijn

      Postbode

      Peter Smits

      Peter

      Coby Timp

      Mother