Bert Haanstra Movies

Short film in which Dutch author Simon Carmiggelt visits the hairdresser.

Documentary about Ajax Amsterdam in 1968.

Documentary on the genesis of oil in the Earth's crust.

Dutch sculpture in the late Middle Ages.

Bert Haanstra was commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a short film about his own country. It had to be a piece of the work that...

Short poetic documentary about the southern sea in the Netherlands.

The glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam commissioned Bert Haanstra to make film about glass manufacturing. The entire process can be seen: the...

Highlights of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps on June 5th, 1955.

The film is a study of the differences and similarities between human and animal behaviour. The first part of the movie focuses on the behaviour of...

Bert Haanstra's first film.

Myrte and the Demons is a hallucinatory trip through a world shot in chiaroscuro in which lugubrious forest spirits take human forms at night. Myrte,...

Documentary about Queen Juliana of The Netherlands in honor of her 70st birthday, including a short interview with the queen.

In Rembrandt, Haanstra shows that it is possible to make a fascinating film only with images from paintings. He had to travel though all over Europe...

Documentary on the first stage in oil exploration: the first drill.

How the location and size of an oil field is measured. With animated explanations.