Winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for The Assault enabled Fons Rademakers to realize his dream project: The Rose Garden, a story about a concentration camp survivor, Aaron Reichenbach (Schell) who recognizes one of his executioners and then knocks him down. Then a court film arises in which he tries to justify his act and explain the why of the abuse by proving, with his lawyer's (Ullmann) help, that the SS man was involved in the murder of…

Paul Verhoeven grew up during the Second World War in The Hague, which was bombed on 3 March 1945. "I will not be able to release myself from the war," Verhoeven said in 2008 to Elsevier Magazine about the influence of the war on his later life and films, in which violence regularly predominates. "As a child I saw the bombing, dead people lying on the street. These are penetrating memories. That determines your world view. It is therefore no…

Once upon a time when I was fourteen going on fifteen, my dad took me to Antwerp, Belgium. It took us 2.5 hours to get there. We visited Antwerp before. but my mum was always there as well. This time, it was a guy's trip. I hoped we went to visit the Zoo again, but instead we walked to an old cinema with just one room. The cinema is gone by now, but the memory is still alive: it was…