A murder suspect won't talk—so they give him a typewriter. What he writes will wreck you.
A man with bloody hands is arrested as prime suspect in a murder case. He does not understand why and refuses to cooperate. Bernard Van de Wiele, the suspect, is a writer. One of the police inspectors comes up with the idea to give him a typewriter: an Olivetti 82. The interrogators hope that this way he will agree to share his story. Bernard begins his memoir: a long search for love and protection. Little by little the truth comes to light.
Acting
Roofthooft's hands do more acting than most faces
Direction
Stage origins tighten the frame until it suffocates
Writing
Screenplay trusts audience to assemble the wreckage
Director
Rudi Van den Bossche
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Van den Bossche's own stage play; the single-location tension survives intact.
Flemish cinema's early-2000s wave of literary psychodramas—this one got buried, undeservedly.
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