Movies by Micha Wertheim

Micha Wertheim: Live In Toomler

Micha Wertheim: Live In Toomler

Micha Wertheim: Voor Specialisten

Micha Wertheim: Voor Specialisten

Live from Toomler, Amsterdam. Micha Wertheim tells about his time in hospital when he was treated for thyroid cancer. Recorded in January 2008.

Micha Wertheim: Voor Twaalven

Micha Wertheim: Voor Twaalven

The Oudejaarsconference (New Year's Eve performance) of the year 2023 by the Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim.

Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else

Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else

The bigger the audiences for Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim’s shows became, the less he had to do to make them laugh. In one early show, he suggested that the audience would be better off without him. So in 2016, he acted upon this suggestion with an experiment that made theater history: he wasn't physically present onstage but somewhere else. The audience wasn't aware of this in advance, though they did get a hint in the form of a pre-recorded "live" radio interview from a remote studio. "I see my audience as my children," Wertheim says in t...

Micha Wertheim: Voor Alle Duidelijkheid

Micha Wertheim: Voor Alle Duidelijkheid

Micha Wertheim asks himself and his audience how to live and survive in a gloomy future perspective. Populism seems to have been taken for granted by both right-wing and left-wing parties. Racism, sexism, anti-Semitism seem to be increasing. The planet is dying. The factory farming industry is still booming. We have reached a dead end and we are standing with our noses against a blank wall. All we can do now is turn around to see how we got here, with our backs against the wall.

Micha Wertheim: Someone Else

Micha Wertheim: Someone Else

This comedy/theatre show is the sequel to 'Micha Wertheim: Somewhere Else'. This second show starts exactly where the first show ended: in the same theatrical scenery, with the same robot. But this time Wertheim surprises his audience by showing up. He tells about how the first experimental comedy show was received and contemplates about the magic of theatre and art in a society about the right to exist of art in a society that allows less and less doubt and confusion. When Robot falls into a depression, the boundaries between theater and re...

Micha Wertheim: Voor Je Het Weet

Micha Wertheim: Voor Je Het Weet

Stage registration of the fifth comedy special by the Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. At the start of the performance, the performance appears to be unfinished: Micha Wertheim is still writing and the comedian has a writer's block.

Micha Wertheim: Voor Zichzelf

Micha Wertheim: Voor Zichzelf

Stage registration of the sixth comedy special by the Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. The comedian notices that he has found his own audience through the years. But Wertheim also notices that his audience projects their own biased opinion on the performance, and there's nothing that Wertheim can do to change that opinion.

Micha Wertheim: Voor de Zoveelste Keer

Micha Wertheim: Voor de Zoveelste Keer

Stage registration of the fourth comedy special by Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. A show about anger, repetition, change, and repetition.

Micha Wertheim For the Scots

Micha Wertheim For the Scots

Registration of a comedy show that the Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim gave at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2008.

Micha Wertheim: Voor Beginners

Micha Wertheim: Voor Beginners

Stage registration of the first comedy special by the Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. The central idea of ​​the performance is: 'Some people think I'm arrogant, but I spit on them."