The Northerners
Apr 17 1992
•2h 48m
•Comedy, Drama
A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
Cast
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Jack Wouterse
Jacob
Annet Malherbe
Martha
Rudolf Lucieer
Anton
Leonard Lucieer
Thomas
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