The Northerners

De Noorderlingen
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlex van Warmerdam
Written byAlex van Warmerdam
Produced byLaurens Geels
Dick Maas
StarringJack Wouterse
Annet Malherbe
Rudolf Lucieer
Edited byRené Wiegmans
Music byVincent van Warmerdam
Production
company
First Floor Features
Distributed byUnited International Pictures
Release date
  • 17 April 1992 (1992-04-17)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryNetherlands
LanguageDutch

The Northerners (Dutch: De Noorderlingen) is a 1992 Dutch film written and directed by Alex van Warmerdam. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[1] This black comedy takes places in the 1960s, in a surreal Dutch new town consisting of only a single street. It is a darkly amusing satire of bourgeois life and its repressions, pursuit of fantasies through a Freudian forest are all executed with visual and dramatic flair. Van Warmerdam himself has said that he considers this his best film.

It won him a (Gouden Kalf) for best director, and the movie was nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award. Actor Rudolf Lucieer won a Gouden Kalf for his role as Anton, the forester. The movie is part of the official Canon of Dutch films[2] and has gained cult film status.[3]

  1. ^ "Foreign Oscar entries submitted". Variety. 3 December 1992. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Zestien films in Canon van de Nederlandse Film". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). December 9, 2007. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
  3. ^ "The DVDs of 2009". BFI. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012.