Cornelis van Doorn is the CEO of VD, a meat factory as well as a developer of contraceptives. Cornelis is the patriarch of the Van Doorn family: a decadent bunch of loose morals who only lust for money and power. When the man is thinking about retiring, he has to find the right heir to take over the family business.
Production
Unflinching abattoir sequences that merge flesh as profit and flesh as product.
Acting
Kees Brusse's patriarch—grease and charm curdling into something rancid.
Director
Wim Verstappen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
VD dropped during Dutch cinema's 'seventies liberation'—part art-house provocation, part genuine class critique of postwar industrial wealth.
Director Wim Verstappen co-founded the Dutch Film Academy; this was his commercial pivot after experimental work, explaining the arthouse-grindhouse tension.
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