Bert Haanstra Movies

A subtle account of the chimpanzees' behaviour in Burgers Dierenpark in Arnhem, on the occasion of the publication of the book Chimpansee Politiek by...

Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.

Bert Haanstra was commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a short film about his own country. It had to be a piece of the work that...

The Netherlands and water, they are inseparable from one another. Water in its soothing form, as a place of work and pleasure and as a source of...

Documentary on the genesis of oil in the Earth's crust.

In Rembrandt, Haanstra shows that it is possible to make a fascinating film only with images from paintings. He had to travel though all over Europe...

Documentary on the first stage in oil exploration: the first drill.

Documentary about Ajax Amsterdam in 1968.

Dutch sculpture in the late Middle Ages.

Bert Haanstra's first film.

Short film in which Dutch author Simon Carmiggelt visits the hairdresser.

Myrte and the Demons is a hallucinatory trip through a world shot in chiaroscuro in which lugubrious forest spirits take human forms at night. Myrte,...

How the location and size of an oil field is measured. With animated explanations.

Short poetic documentary about the southern sea in the Netherlands.

Highlights of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps on June 5th, 1955.