Bloedbroeders

Infobox Film
name = Blood Brothers


caption =
director = Arno Dierickx
producer = Reinier Selen Edwin van Meurs
writer = Bert Bouma Jan Bernard Bussemaker
narrator =
starring = Erik van Heijningen Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen Sander van Amsterdam Derk Stenvers Carolien Spoor
music = Johan Hoogewijs
cinematography =
editing = Wouter Jansen
distributor =
released = January 10, 2008 (NL)
runtime = 90 minutes
country = Netherlands
language = Dutch
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website = http://www.bloedbroedersdefilm.com/
amg_id =
imdb_id = 1071201

"Blood Brothers" (Dutch: "Bloedbroeders") is a 2008 Dutch telefilm, directed by Arno Dierickx.

The film is based on the Baarnse murder case, which took place between 1960-1963. The then 17-year old Boudewijn Henny, his 15-year old brother Ewout Henny and their 16-year old friend Hennie Werkhoven killed the 14-year old Theo Mastwijk in Soest.

Plot

Simon is a high school student who always gets high grades. He isn't popular and spends his free time making home work and helping his mother. At one day, he is in a store buying a LP album for his mother and runs into the popular brothers Arnout and Victor van Riebeeck.

Arnout and Victor are the sons of a very wealthy man and like to make trouble. Arnout is trying to steal a LP album, but gets caught by the store clerk. He shoves the LP album in Simon's hands to stay out of trouble and it seems to work. Eventually, Simon steals the LP album for the boys. Outside, they get to know each other.

They are interrupted with Ronnie, a high school drop-out and bully. He breaks Simon's LP album. He is too afraid to stand up for himself, but it is Arnout who helps Simon out. They get acquainted with Ronnie and they eventually make trouble when Arnout steals a motor.

The owner of the motor calls the police and they try to arrest Ronnie. He gets away and decides to crash at the attic of the Van Riebeeck house. They decide to help him out, without Arnout and Victor's parents or the maids and other house staff finding out.

Nothing seems to go wrong and Simon has the time of his life hanging out with Arnout and Victor at their enormous mansion. Simon is especially interested in Arnout's girlfriend Frederique. Arnout isn't really interested in her and tells Simon he can have her. He tries to make a move, but Frederique isn't interested in him in a romantic way.

Meanwhile, Ronnie becomes more of a bargain. He starts to demand stuff. The boys try to force him to go away, but Ronnie threatens to tell the police they helped him out stealing the motor if he gets busted. When Arnout and Victor are about to go on vacation, they know it is time for Ronnie to leave. The boys try anything to get Ronnie out of the house, including making a fake pasport and convince him to leave the country. But nothing seems to work and the boys see only one solution: Murder.

They try to poison his drink, but it goes wrong. They plan on strangling him with a cord. Victor is supposed to be on the look out, while Arnout and Simon are strangling him. When Arnout chickens out, Simon decides to do it only. He tries to choke him, but Ronnie is stronger and pushes him away before he tries to run away from them. Afraid Ronnie will tell someone, Arnout runs after him and hits him in the head with an axe.

They bury him and a few days later Arnout and Victor are going on vacation. Arnout tells Simon a lot has happened the past few weeks and it is better for them not to see each other. The movie finally ends with intertitles, saying the boys got arrested and went into TBS. Arnout and Victor are now free and took over the business of their father. They now belong to one of the richest men in the Netherlands, while Simon is all forgotten.

Cast

*Erik van Heijningen - Simon Bakker
*Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen - Arnout van Riebeeck
*Sander van Amsterdam - Ronnie Fennis
*Derk Stenvers - Victor van Riebeeck
*Carolien Spoor - Frederique
*Pierre Bokma - Father van Riebeeck
*Betty Schuurman - Mother van Riebeeck
*Dimme Treurniet - Father Bakker
*Marthe Geke Bracht - Mother Bakker
*Daan van Dijsseldonk - Diederick van Riebeeck

Realities content

The body of Theo Mastwijk was coincidentally discovered by a staff member of the mansion on Friday October 27, 1961. His body was found in a pit meant as a boobytrap for bears. His body was covered with whitewash and after investigation, he was affirmed to be killed in June 1960.

The murder case was being talked about all over the country, because the murderers were rich kids. Boudewijn and Ewout were the sons of the director of an insurance company. Boudewijn later escaped from jail, but later was caught again.

Boudewijn (Arnout in the film) and Hennie Werkhoven (Simon in the film) were convicted to nine years of jail in 1963. The judge thought Ewout (Victor in the film) was involved with the murder as well and was sent to jail for six years. [ [http://www.bloedbroedersdefilm.com/inspiratie.html Official Website] Inspiration of the film (murder case)]

The makers of the film never studied the files related to the real murder case and the written script was fictional. The character of Frederique never existed, for instance.

References

External links

* [http://www.bloedbroedersdefilm.com/ Official Website]
*imdb title|1071201|Bloedbroeders