Overview

1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.

Details

Cast

Gijs Scholten van Aschat

Jacob Derwig

Rifka Lodeizen

Zeb Troostwijk

Juda Goslinga

Elisabeth Hesemans

Joosje Duk

Sander van Amsterdam

Houk van Warmerdam

Thomas Cammaert