IT'S BEEN A LOVELY DAY
Original language title: HET IS EEN SCHONE DAG GEWEEST

Country of production: Netherlands
Year: 1993
Language: Dutch
70 mins.

"A riveting study in the purest documentary filmmaking tradition..." (VARIETY)

Festivals included: Rotterdam, Amsterdam documentary, New York, Goteborg, Sydney

IT'S BEEN A LOVELY DAY is a rich portrait of a traditional Dutch farmer's family, made by their son. The documentary focuses on the last year of the parents' work on the farm, which has passed from generation to generation for more than a century. Now, they will retire without a successor. The film begins at 6.A.M., January 1, 1992. It ends twelve months later. In between, we witness the last harvest, the choreography of a farmer moving over the land, the overwhelming silence... The film observes with little verbal comment but in outspoken style how a traditional way of life is disappearing from Europe.

Producer: Jos de Putter
Production co: Stichting Dieptescherpte
Director: Jos de Putter
Editor: Nathalie Alonso Casale, Riekje Ziengs
Photography: Stef Tijdink, Melle van Essen
Sound: Paul Veld, Martijn van Haalen
Source:
Mr. Frank van den Engel
Zeppers Film & TV
Joh. Verhulststraat 174
1075 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands
zeppers@xs4all.nl

Saturday, March 29
3pm
Block Cinema

Screening as part of EMPIRE AND RESISTANCE: JOS DE PUTTER RETROSPECTIVE