Waiter (film)

Waiter
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlex van Warmerdam
Written byAlex van Warmerdam
Produced byMarc van Warmerdam
StarringAlex van Warmerdam
Ariane Schluter
Mark Rietman
Thekla Reuten
Line Van Wambeke
CinematographyTom Erisman
Edited byEwin Ryckaert
Music byVincent van Warmerdam
Production
companies
Distributed byA-Film Distribution
Release dates
  • 10 September 2006 (2006-09-10) (Toronto Film Festival)[1]
  • 27 September 2006 (2006-09-27) (Netherlands Film Festival)[2]
  • 28 September 2006 (2006-09-28) (Netherlands)
Running time
97 minutes
CountriesNetherlands
Belgium
LanguagesDutch
English

Waiter (Dutch: Ober) is a 2006 Dutch-Belgian absurdist black comedy film by Alex van Warmerdam. It tells the story of Edgar, a discontented waiter. The film had its world premiere on the Toronto Film Festival on 10 September 2006. It was the opening film of the Netherlands Film Festival, where Waiter received two Golden Calves, for Best Scenario and Best Production Design. In January 2007 the film received a Golden Film. The film is about stagnation of creativity and a take on overbearing of elements in life, it also takes wryly a puck-shot at god and his relation with humans.

  1. ^ Film description: Waiter. Retrieved on 8 October 2006.
  2. ^ (in Dutch) Ober openingsfilm NFF, Cinema.nl, 2006. Retrieved on 22 December 2014.