Keetje Tippel

Katie Tippel
movie poster for Katie Tippel
Directed byPaul Verhoeven
Written byNeel Doff
Gerard Soeteman
Produced byRob Houwer
StarringMonique van de Ven
Rutger Hauer
CinematographyJan de Bont
Edited byJane Sperr
Music byRogier van Otterloo
Release date
  • 1975 (1975)
Running time
107 min.
LanguageDutch
Budget$800,000[1]
Box office1.8 million admissions (Netherlands)[2]

Katie Tippel (Dutch title: Keetje Tippel) is a 1975 film by Paul Verhoeven. The film is based on the memoirs of Neel Doff (1858–1942) and was the most expensive Dutch film produced up to that time. The film was a box office success,[3] being the number one film in the Netherlands for the year[4] with 1.8 million admissions, and one of the top 10 most popular Dutch films of all time at the time.[2]

  1. ^ Saaltink, Hans (January 15, 1975). "Admissions Up 1,250,000 In 1974, But Netherlands Features Fewer". Variety. p. 3.
  2. ^ a b "Top 20 Dutch Features, 1945-1989". Variety. 29 October 1990. p. 46.
  3. ^ Mathijs, Ernest (2004). The Cinema of the Low Countries. Wallflower Press. p. 146.
  4. ^ "Holland's Top 20 Of 1975". Variety. May 12, 1976. p. 417.