Fons Rademakers

Known for DirectingBorn 1920-09-05Died 2007-02-22Roosendaal, Netherlands

Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. His 1960 film Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award. During a career spanning several decades he directed 11 films, including The Assault, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, and The Village on the River, nominated for the same award in 1959. Making him both the first Dutch director to be nominated and win this award. He granted a wide-ranging interview to Radio Netherlands in 1987. He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema, after the life-support machines were switched off at his request.Read more

Movies & web series

The Inheritance

Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving)

Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces)

Aah... Tamara

All Rebels

Arsène Lupin

Hollywood by Bike

The Assault

The Rose Garden

Village by the River

The Dance of the Heron

Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

Katie Tippel

Like Two Drops of Water

Daughters of Darkness

That Joyous Eve...

The Enemies

The Knife

Because of the Cats

Mira

Mysteries

Lifespan

Vrijdag

My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter

Obsessions

Diary of a Mad Old Man