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EVA PLOMPEN | FILM EDITOR

tegendraads (2024)

assistant editor

Still from Tegendraads. Johanna, a white Dutch woman with blonde hair, is standing up in 1960s open-top car. The wind is blowing through her hair and she has her eyes closed in a sort of wistful, content, happy relaxation.
Still from Tegendraads. Johanna and Franceso are looking at each other in the middle of the textile factory workfloor.
Still from Tegendraads. Johanna and Aleid, two Dutch white women, are on bikes. They both have scarves on their head and are looking at each other.

Tegendraads is a feature film by Ben Sombogaart. I was the sole assistant editor.

 

Sleepy Oldenzaal is rocked by the arrival of a large group of Italian workers brought to the Netherlands to work in the fast-growing textile industry. The Italians work hard, do not complain and steal the hearts of the local girls. Meanwhile, the young labourer Johanna is looking for freedom and tries to move up the ladder against social conventions. The growing tensions between the people of Twente and the newcomers eventually lead to the historic ‘spaghetti riots’. Together with her lover Francesco, Johanna finds herself in the eye of the storm.

 2h07″ – Dutch

Director // Ben Sombogaart

Editor // Herman P Koerts, NCE

Still photography by Mark de Blok.

Poster for 'Tegendraads'. It's a sunset lit factory room in the 60s. Two people are facing each other, a Dutch woman with long blonde hair and an Italian man with short black hair.
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