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The Northerners
NETHERLANDS · 1992

The Northerners

Alex van Warmerdam
sexual repression small-town eccentricity suburban dysfunction social hypocrisy dark desire
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Synopsis

A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.

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