Adriaan Ditvoorst
Born: 1940-01-23 in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
Died: 1987-10-18
Known For: Directing
Biography
Adriaan Ditvoorst was a screenwriter and director, educated at the Netherlands Film Academy. He was well-known for his experimental films. In 1967, Paranoia was selected for the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. Ditvoorst grew up in a Catholic family. When he was only ten years old, his father died in a car accident. Both death and Catholicism became important themes in Ditvoorst’s work, as in Carna (1969), shot in his birthplace Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands.
Filmography
1992
- The Ditvoorst Domains as Self (archive footage)
1984
- White Madness ... (Director)
1981
- Lucifer ... (Director)
1978
- The Mantle of Love ... (Director)
1975
- Flanagan ... (Director)
1973
- De blinde fotograaf ... (Director)
1969
- Carna ... (Director)
1967
- Paranoia ... (Director)
1965
- That Way to Madra ... (Writer)