The Good Hope

Movie · 1h 45m

Starring Esther de Boer-van Rijk, Philip Dorn, Jan Van Ees, Annie Verhulst

Fisherman’s widow Kniertje urges her two younger sons to set sail on the ‘Op hoop van zegen’, a heavily insured floating wreck which duly goes down in a storm. Kniertje is left behind, alone and lonely. Based on Herman Heijermans’ socialist-inspired Dutch theatre classic.