Young Kees

8

Netherlands

Drama Family

96 min

2003

Ruud Feltkamp Tanja Jess Tjitske Reidinga Hans Kesting Joep Onderdelinden Monic Hendrickx Yannick van de Velde Sebas Berman Serge-Henri Valcke Theo Maassen Frederik Brom

Little boy Kees is based on the famous classical masterpiece by Theo Thijssen and deals with a twelve year old Amsterdam schoolboy who grows up at the end of the 19th century in the Jordaan (part of Amsterdam. Kees Bakels is a dreamer who seeks refuge from reality with wild imagination where he dares more than in real life. Through his fathers illness and his young love for Rosa Overbeek he develops himself as someone who acts and assumes responsibility.