Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company.
Acting
Josse De Pauw's crumbling dignity is physically painful to watch.
Writing
Elsschot's source novel adapted with cruel precision.
Production
That apartment. Those cheese boxes. The suffocation is real.
Director
Orlow Seunke
Josse De Pauw
Frans Laarmans
Frieda Pittoors
Fine Laarmans
Marie Vinck
Ida Laarmans
Bert André
Doctor Laarmans
Guusje van Tilborgh
Sister 1
Stany Crets
cousin Oscar
Jappe Claes
Man 2
Hubert Damen
Hellemans
Marc Didden
Bruane
Pieter Embrechts
Erfurt
Viviane de Muynck
Madame Peeters
Wim Opbrouck
van Blauwhoedveem
Tania Poppe
Maid
Dirk Roofthooft
Boorman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Willem Elsschot's 1933 novella 'Kaas,' a cornerstone of Dutch-language literature that satirizes Belgian petit-bourgeois aspiration.
The 666 cases aren't random—Seunke leans into the number's biblical weight, framing Frans's hubris as a Flemish everyman's original sin.
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