Ja zuster, nee zuster (2002)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Pieter Kramer

Writers:

Harry Bannink (writer)
Frank Houtappels (writer)

Release Date:

23 October 2002 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

The film is a cheerful stylised musical comedy a la 8 femmes. The story happens in the guesthouse of sister Klivia in one of the Dutch towns...

Plot Keywords:

Grandpa | Dancing In The Rain | Pigeon | Police | Barbershop

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Loes Luca	...	Sister Klivia
Paul Kooij	...	Neighbour Boordevol
Tjitske Reidinga	...	Jet
Waldemar Torenstra	...	Gerrit
Paul de Leeuw	...	Wouter
Beppe Costa	...	Engineer
Edo Brunner	...	Bertus
Lennart Vader	...	Bobby
Frits Lambrechts	...	Opa
Olga Zuiderhoek	...	Rechter
Arjan Ederveen	...	Choreographer
Pierre van Duijl	...	Greek
Guus Dam	...	Agent 1
Joep Onderdelinden	...	Agent 2
Ad Knippels	...	SRV Boss

Also Known As:

Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (International: English title) (USA)

Runtime:

Germany:100 min (Berlin Film Festival) | USA:100 min

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:AL

Company:

Bos Bros. Film & TV Productions

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Although the movie is set in the '60s, you can see a present day cat food tin when Ingenieur feeds his pill to Boordevol's cat.

Movie Connections:

References Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)

Soundtrack:

De jongens van de reisvereniging

A Dutch Musical Comedy

Maybe you won't get to experience a full Castro Theater singing along with the star of the movie, but I think you'll enjoy it almost as much as I did! And while it played in the 27th San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, it isn't really a Gay film. It's just a movie that has a special appeal to a Gay audience. I doubt that most of the audience speaks Dutch. I doubt that most of the audience had ever heard any of the songs. I had no idea that this movie had its origins in a long lost '60s Dutch TV series. None of this mattered. The movie was silly and just plain fun. The characters burst out in song and start dancing. There were bits and pieces that reminded me of '60s American musical and others that reminded me of British sit-coms. There were heroes and villains. There is growth and change. The Dutch Queen even comes to visit. Yes Nurse, No Nurse could never have been made in the US. And that's a good thing.