A Noble Intention

The story

1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.

Cast & crew

Gijs Scholten van AschatVedder

Jacob DerwigAnijs

Rifka LodeizenMartha

Zeb Troostwijk

Zeb TroostwijkKlein Pet

Juda GoslingaBennemin

Elisabeth Hesemans

Elisabeth HesemansMother Bennemin

Joosje DukJohanna Bennemin

Sander van AmsterdamLubber

Houk van Warmerdam

Houk van WarmerdamSieger

Thomas CammaertEbert

Leon VoorbergHenkenhaf

John LeddyMr. Carstens