Movies by Robbe De Hert

Hollywood on the river Scheldt
Overview of the history of cinema in Flanders.

Camera Sutra (or the Pale Faces)
A group of flemish youth wants to start a revolution The drama is interspersed with documentary (type) footage.

Janssen & Janssens draaien een film
A documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema.
Gaston's War
Gaston Vandermeerssche is a young, resourceful Flemish action hero of the Belgian resistance during World War II: he coaches surviving allied pilots trough occupied Belgium and France to Spain so they can regain England, each time a dangerous adventure as their poor mastery of local languages and customs add to the ever-present risks of trying to outsmart the Nazi troops and Gestapo agents. After a mess-up in the coordination from London he himself gets caught by the dreaded secret police for ruthless interrogation...
Dood van een sandwichman
A documentary about cycling and the death of cycling world champion Jean-Pierre Monseré in 1971.

De Bom (of het wanhoopskomitee)
One day a garage owner finds an atomic bomb that has been lost by an airplane. He hides the bomb and shakes the country when he announces that he will not return the bomb until the production of such weapons of destruction is stopped.
Gejaagd door de winst (of het A.B.C. van de moderne samenleving)
A three independent parts sci-fi drama. In the first, entitled The Bomb, a story of a garage mechanic is told who finds an atomic bomb by accident. The second part, entitled The Last Judgment, deals with the consequences of a military convoy carrying biological weapons going mad. In the third part, entitled Experts Of Evil, there is an accident at a chemical plant when a,pressurized container with dioxin explodes resulting in leakage.
De geboorte en dood van Dirk Vandersteen jr.
The wife of a local dictator gets a miscarriage during a failed assault by rebels. The dictators' brother suggesst to present the newly born baby of one a the dead rebels as his posterity.

Blueberry Hill
Antwerp in the fifties. Robin de Hert grew up in a Catholic parochial environment; on the one hand there is his authoritarian father and the sadistic secretary of the Catholic boys technical school, on the other hand there are the 'Grieten' and the French teacher with whom Robin is getting a good band through a secret they share. If the secretary finds out about this secret, this has major implications for both the teacher and the students ...

Hollywood by Bike
Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others.