Unknown Brood

The story

“When I do my suicide for you, I hope you’ll miss me too,” Herman Brood sang in “Rock ‘n’ Roll Junkie” – just one of many announcements of his own death Brood worked into his songs. It’s a subject Brood, who jumped off the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton 15 years ago, often sang about. In Unknown Brood, a whole range of people look back on the rock and roller’s turbulent life, including fellow musicians, his manager, a former girlfriend, photographer Anton Corbijn, Brood’s wife and their daughter. Video footage shot by Brood himself and never seen before is intercut with a rich collection of archive material, including a humorous clip of Brood barking the Dutch national anthem. His sister Beppie Brood stresses her brother’s split personality: on the one hand the shy, vulnerable man wary of other people, and on the other the one who played Herman Brood – an extravagant, hedonistic junkie and rock and roll star.

Cast & crew

Herman BroodCast

Frank BlackCast

BonoCast

Nina HagenCast

Anton CorbijnCast

Holly Mae BroodCast

Jules DeelderCast

Henny VrientenCast

Xandra Brood

Xandra BroodCast

Dany LademacherCast

Cees Meerman

Cees MeermanCast

David Hollestelle

David HollestelleCast