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Dood Water

{{short description|1934 film}}

{{Expand Dutch|date=May 2009|topic=cult}}

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| name = Dood Water

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| director = Gerard Rutten

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| writer = Simon Koster, Gerard Rutten

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| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

| released = {{Film date|1934|10|26|df=yes}}

| runtime = 106 minutes

| country = Netherlands

| language = Dutch

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Dood Water is a 1934 Dutch drama film directed by Gerard Rutten.

Cast

Reception

The film won the Coppa Istituto Luce at Venice Film Festival (1934), for best cinematography, by Andor von Barsy.

Writing for The Spectator, Graham Greene praised the film's documentary prologue as "an exciting piece of pure cinema", and commented that the story which follows "has some of the magnificent drive one felt behind the classic Russian films, behind Earth and The General Line: no tiresome 'message', but a belief in the importance of a human activity truthfully reported". Greene also noted, however, that "the photography is uneven: at moments it is painfully 'arty', deliberately out of focus".{{cite journal |last= Greene|first= Graham|author-link= Graham Greene|date= 6 September 1935|title= Dood Wasser/Me and Marlborough|journal= The Spectator}} (reprinted in: {{cite book|editor-last= Taylor|editor-first= John Russell|editor-link= John Russell Taylor|date= 1980|title= The Pleasure Dome|url= https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/18|pages= [https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/18 18–19]|isbn= 0192812866|url-access= registration}})

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External links

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Category:1934 films

Category:Dutch black-and-white films

Category:1934 drama films

Category:Films directed by Gerard Rutten

Category:Dutch drama films

Category:1930s Dutch-language films

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