Paul Verhoeven

Jan Hendrik Wolkers

Tragikomische episoden, vol erotiek, dood en ellende, uit de relatie tussen een kunstenaar en de vrouw die hem verliet.

Turks fruit

Dennis Muren

Gilles Penso

Alexandre Poncet

The Art of Phil Tippett

Mad Dreams and Monsters

Building on the work of biblical scholars—Rudolph Bultmann, Raymond Brown, Jane Schaberg, and Robert Funk, among others—filmmaker Paul Verhoeven disrobes the mythical Jesus to reveal a man who has much in common with other great political leaders throughout history—human beings who believed that change was coming in their lifetimes. Gone is the Jesus of the miracles, gone the son of God, gone the weaver of arcane parables whose meanings are obscure. In their place Verhoeven gives us his vision of Jesus as a complete man, someone who was changed by events, the leader of a political movement, and, perhaps most importantly, someone who, in his speeches and sayings, introduced a new ethic in which the embrace of human contradictions transcends the mechanics of value and worth that had defined the material world before Jesus. "The Romans saw [Jesus] as an insurrectionist, what today is often called a terrorist. It is very likely there were ‘wanted’ posters of him on the gates of Jerusalem. He was dangerous because he was proclaiming the Kingdom of Heaven, but this wasn’t the Kingdom of Heaven as we think of it now, some spectral thing in the future, up in the sky. For Jesus, the Kingdom of Heaven was a very tangible thing. Something that was already present on Earth, in the same way that Che Guevara proclaimed Marxism as the advent of world change. If you were totalitarian rulers, running an occupation like the Romans, this was troubling talk, and that was why Jesus was killed." —Paul Verhoeven, from profile by Mark Jacobson in New York Magazine

Jesus of Nazareth

Gerard Soeteman

Een jonge joodse vrouw raakt aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog betrokken bij het Nederlandse verzet; als ze de opdracht krijgt een Duitse officier te verleiden, ontdekt ze dat goed en fout in de oorlog dicht bij elkaar liggen.

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Zwartboek

Rob van Scheers

In Jezus van Nazaret stelt Paul Verhoeven zich de vraag: wie was Jezus werkelijk en waar stond hij voor? Verhoeven ontdoet in zijn uitermate inzichtelijk geschreven studie Jezus van tweeduizend jaar christelijke inkleuring. Op basis van jarenlang grondig onderzoek moet de mythische bijbelfiguur Jezus uiteindelijk plaatsmaken voor de historische figuur Jezus, een revolutionair.

in samenspraak met Rob van Scheers

Jezus van Nazareth

Ambientada en La Haya a finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial Black Book tiene como a protagonista a Rachel, una joven judía perseguida por el régimen nazi cuya única posibilidad de salvación es colaborar con ellos ejerciendo de espía. Ya introducida en la organización, Rachel empieza a trabajar bajo la supervisión de un oficial alemán del cual se enamorará sin remedio y descubrirá que el asesinato de sus padres no fue un accidente casual como creía y otras verdades difíciles de aceptar, una de ellas tan dura como que tanto los nazis como los ejércitos aliados se aprovecharon de la exterminación de los judíos.Pero, ¿en quién puede confiar? ¿cómo conseguirá Rachel llegar a distinguir la verdad de la mentira? La clave del misterio se encuentra en el libro negro, vigilado con celosía por el guardián de registros y libros judío de La Haya. Las páginas de este cuaderno reflejan cuánto dinero se dio a los judíos (que posteriormente les fue robado) pero también quién del ejército de la Resistencia recibía comisiones por estas "fugas" de dinero que les conducía irremediablemente a la muerte. Bajo un cielo bombardeado y con la ayuda de su amante, el oficial alemán, Rachel está dispuesta a todo para encontrar la verdad."Una polémica revisión de los mitos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y una novela de aventuras desgarradora". The Observer

El libro negro

The riveting, darkly funny stand-alone sequel to Loose Units. Paul Verhoeven's ex-cop dad, John, spent years embroiled in some of the seediest, scariest intrigue and escapades imaginable. One day John offered Paul the chance of a lifetime: he'd spill his guts on tape. Electric Blue spans the final years of John's stint in the New South Wales police force, in the grimy, analytical world of forensics. Paul unpicks his father's most terrible cases. There was the case of a rapist hiding in the walls of shower block, a body that was quite literally cooked and the bizarre copycat suicides. But what's it actually like to have a heroic ex-cop as a Dad? Paul and John delve into their unique father--son relationship and how they ended up so different to each other. They figure out how to deal with the choices they've made ... or wish they'd made. And Paul's mum, Christine, reveals what it was like to be a pioneering female cop in the 80s when misogyny was rife in the force. Thrilling, fascinating and unexpectedly laugh-out-loud funny, Electric Blue is another high-octane adventure in policing, integrity and learning what family is really all about.

Electric Blue

Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema

scenario voor een speelfilm

Soldaat van Oranje

Paul Verhoeven's father, John, is a cop. Well, an ex-cop. Long since retired, John spent years embroiled in some of the seediest, scariest intrigue and escapades imaginable. Paul, however, is something of an artsy, sensitive soul who can't understand why he doesn't have the same heroism and courage as his dad. One day, John offers Paul the chance of a lifetime- he'll spill his guts, on tape, for the first time ever, and try to get to the bottom of this difference between them. What unfolds is a goldmine of true-crime stories, showing John's dramatic (and sometimes dodgy) experience of policing in Sydney in the 1980s. The crims, the car chases, the frequent brushes with death and violence, and the grey zone between what's ethical and what's effective- finally Paul gets real insight into what's formed his father's character. Thrilling, fascinating and often laugh-out-loud funny, Loose Unitsis a high-octane adventure in policing, integrity and learning what your father is reallyall about.

Paul Verhoeven

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