Helmert Woudenberg

Helmert Woudenberg

Born: February 15, 1945
Died: November 23, 2023
in Elspe, Germany
Helmert Woudenberg was a Dutch actor, stagedirector and playright. He was one of the founding members of the innovative theatre group Het Werkteater, based in Amsterdam.

Movies for Helmert Woudenberg...

Dante vs. Mohammed Ali
Title: Dante vs. Mohammed Ali
Character: Grandfather
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
When Wolf refuses to fight his best friend Alexander during a weekly boxing match, the whole village turns against him. He tries to convince Alexander to join him leaving the village, but his overly romantic message runs into a wall.
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Matterhorn
Title: Matterhorn
Character: Predikant
Released: January 24, 2013
Type: Movie
A lonely widower finds himself facing both his devout Calvinist village community and his own deepest regrets when he takes a deranged vagrant into his home.
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Title: Dokter Tinus
Character: Ted Neeskens
Released: August 29, 2012
Type: TV
A successful vascular surgeon is suddenly confronted with a blood phobia, making it impossible for him to exercise his job in the hospital. He moves from the capital to the countryside to work as the GP of a village where he only knows his aunt. His predecessor was well liked, so his new community is less than welcoming. The empathic capabilities of the doctor leaves much to be desired, making it even harder for him to win his place in the close-knit community.
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Title: Flikken Maastricht
Character: Eugène Hoeben
Released: September 3, 2007
Type: TV
Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.
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Happy Family
Title: Happy Family
Released: December 14, 2006
Type: Movie
Thijs is a ripe-age Dutch tomato grower. His adult daughters plan to have him move in a skyscraper-flat, leaving home and professional life, but he takes his adolescent (half-)Moroccon grandson Omar's advice to refuse and keep living. Thijs even lets the cheerful rascal coach his love-life, which lands him on a blind date with Jacky, an energetic Flemish woman, who won't take no for an answer but turns up at his door-step till he consents, and soon drags him into evening life, preparing for a dance contest. Soon after Omar turns up, listless and lazier then ever, runaway from school and home. The obvious reason for the horny hound's hanging head is a girl: Mergal is foxy, Turkish and as smitten as he, but her burly big brother Erhan will only allow a boy to go steady with her who has proven himself his better on the field in the traditional manly sport of oil-wrestling. Now Thijs...
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Paid
Title: Paid
Character: Cor
Released: September 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux , a 28-year-old Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man, Michel Angelo (30) whose hearts are touched when a six-year-old Bolivian boy abruptly enters their lives. The boy changes their fate. He gives them reason to reach for their dreams and to start a whole new life together. But, at the moment Paula and Michel decide to escape the underworld, Paula realizes that her hands are tied to a paid deal she has made with a powerful English narcotics baron, Rudi Dancer (55). The enticing offer Paula could not refuse, turns into the demon that stands in the way of her future with Michel. Eventually, Michel and Paula find their way to freedom but not without paying a high price
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Title: Spoorloos verdwenen
Character: Jack Molen
Released: January 5, 2006
Type: TV
A special team searches for missing persons.
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Quicksand
Title: Quicksand
Character: Vader Frits
Released: March 8, 2004
Type: Movie
For all Frits, a farmer's son, knows, his mother died when giving birth to him. He and his father make up a strong team. In the literal and figurative sense, because his father not only teaches him to milk the cows and hunt, he is also the coach of his soccer team. The happy tide turns when the boy turns eighteen and is scouted as a promising soccer talent. Suddenly, Frits's future is no longer with his father on the farm, but on the green grass of the Nijmegen soccer club NEC. His son's splendid soccer career may be the crowning glory of the farmer's hard work, but he is afraid he will also lose his only child. Desperate, he reveals the lie with which he raised his son. Frits is bewildered and makes a dramatic decision.
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Polleke
Title: Polleke
Character: Opa Polleke
Released: October 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Love story in a multicultural society
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Stop!
Title: Stop!
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: Movie
Just your ordinary video store around the corner: A woman enters, grabs a videotape and goes to the counter. She pulls a gun and asks for money. "Quick, quick, quick!" The cashier looks anxious and hands over the money. But just when she turns around to walk away, the cashier pulls a shotgun and fires. Is it for real? Apparently not, because someone shouts: Stop! and we suddenly find ourselves on a film set. The director seems to disagree however with the decision to stop shooting. She reflects on the situation. Then, just few moments later, the director is lying in bed. Was the film set real? Was it fiction?
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Godforsaken!
Title: Godforsaken!
Character: Inspector Geukers
Released: April 24, 2003
Type: Movie
Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.
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Mates
Title: Mates
Released: February 1, 1999
Type: Movie
October 1997. Paul Winters (35) is deputy public prosecutor in Arnhem and is working on his first major case: an investigation in to the allegations of a Bosnian girl that she was raped by three soldiers in the Dutch UN contingent and whose brother is alleged to have been killed by them. Winters suspects that the girl is telling the truth, but he can't prove it and the case is adjourned. Then one of the men gives a revealing statement that throws a different light on the case. Winters argues in favour of reopening the case, but faces opposition from an unexpected quarter.
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Het Werkteater 1970-1985
Title: Het Werkteater 1970-1985
Released: September 8, 1997
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Dutch theatregroup the Werktheater. The aim of the company was to create socially relevant theater by means of cooperative processes and improvisation. They often played their performances on location, such as in hospitals, prisons, healthcare institutions and schools. In this documentary, those involved are interviewed about this remarkable theater group.
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Amsterdamned
Title: Amsterdamned
Character: Chief officer
Released: February 11, 1988
Type: Movie
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.
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Parfait amour
Title: Parfait amour
Character: Lucien van Calster
Released: February 27, 1985
Type: Movie
A Czech dissident with memory loss is being manipulated by shady characters to perform an assassination for them.
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Title: De Jongens Veerman
Character: Klaas Veerman
Released: March 17, 1982
Type: TV
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A Hot Summer Night
Title: A Hot Summer Night
Released: March 11, 1982
Type: Movie
A husband, half of an entertainment duo, the Nellicos, tells his wife, who is the other half of the duo, that he has another woman. But they cannot discuss this as he tells her only just before they are due to perform in front of a large audience. (BFI)
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Rigor mortis
Title: Rigor mortis
Character: Bart
Released: September 24, 1981
Type: Movie
In order to get more customers to their rural inn, Karel and Truus have come up with a stunt. Karel will beat the record for being buried alive. After 124 days the media finally show up.
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Hello Fellow Man
Title: Hello Fellow Man
Character: Tine de Vries
Released: January 4, 1980
Type: Movie
TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'Het Werkteater'. Three ladies of high society invite homeless people, homeless people and junks to spend a pleasant evening with them, in order to promote communication and integration.
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In for Treatment
Title: In for Treatment
Released: January 11, 1979
Type: Movie
An unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation.
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Camping
Title: Camping
Character: Han
Released: August 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Happiness and sadness, joy and sorrow at the campsite. Secret letters, hysteria, bullying, hippie romanticism, betrayal and fading love.
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Toestanden
Title: Toestanden
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
"Conditions" - The improvisation-based performance was inspired by psychiatrists such as RD Laing (Family and Madness) and J. Foudraine (Who is of wood). The Werkteater played this performance 'in the den of the lion': in psychiatric institutions for patients and carers. This led to very intensive and adventurous performances in which 'a lot' always happened. Afterwards the discussions sometimes ran high, but even during the performance the audience sometimes mixed themselves in the scenes.
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Avondrood
Title: Avondrood
Character: Mr. Osdorp
Released: November 27, 1976
Type: Movie
TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'het Werkteater'. A realistic fairy tale about old people in the no man's land between life and death, set in a retirement home.
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Alle dagen feest
Title: Alle dagen feest
Released: April 14, 1976
Type: Movie
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Kattengat 10
Title: Kattengat 10
Released: April 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Documentairy about the progressive theatre group 'Het Werkteater' at their home base on Kattengat 10 in Amsterdam.
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Alicia
Title: Alicia
Character: Hoteleigenaar
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: Movie
'Alicia' is a Dutch erotic film directed by Wim Verstappen, based on an original screenplay by Wim Verstappen and Charles Gormley. Alicia, a bored hosewife, leaves her husband and children in search of adventure.
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Dakota
Title: Dakota
Character: Piloot 1
Released: April 11, 1974
Type: Movie
A Dutch pilot with a real passion for flying risks everything to keep his DC3/Dakota plane in the air. Excellent attention to detail and the beautiful backdrop of the Caribbean make this seldom seen much loved Dutch classic well worth watching.
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Frank and Eva
Title: Frank and Eva
Released: August 22, 1973
Type: Movie
The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can't live together, but can't live without each other either. Frank has sex with every woman he can get, while Eva wants to start a family.
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VD
Title: VD
Character: Jan
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Cornelis van Doorn is the CEO of VD, a meat factory as well as a developer of contraceptives. Cornelis is the patriarch of the Van Doorn family: a decadent bunch of loose morals who only lust for money and power. When the man is thinking about retiring, he has to find the right heir to take over the family business.
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Daniël
Title: Daniël
Character: Douwe
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
After a year's trip around the world, twenty-year-old Daniël comes home where a surprise awaits him. In his absence, his boring bourgeois parents have become completely captivated by the sexual revolution. In their new trendy clothes and their 'groovy' white interior, they make sexual freedom a mockery. This upsets Daniël so much that he flees again. This time to the 'peaceful, unspoilt countryside'. Disillusionment awaits him there too. Frustrations and sexual obsessions appear to be just as intense there as in the big city.
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Business Is Business
Title: Business Is Business
Character: Client
Released: September 10, 1971
Type: Movie
The story of two prostitutes working in the Amsterdam Red Light district, and the many strange and unusual men they meet through their work.
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Blue Movie
Title: Blue Movie
Character: Eddie
Released: July 16, 1971
Type: Movie
25-year-old Michael has been released from prison after a five-year sentence. He moves into a big apartment block, filled with young women who gladly have sex with him.