- Antonia's Line (film)
Infobox Film
name = Antonia's Line
caption = German poster
director =Marleen Gorris
producer =Gerard Cornelisse Hans De Weers Hans de Wolf
writer = Marleen Gorris
starring =Willeke van Ammelrooy Els Dottermans Victor Löw | distributor = Asmik Ace Entertainment
released = flagicon|CanadaSeptember 12 ,1995 (premiere at TIFF)
flagicon|NetherlandsSeptember 21 ,1995
flagicon|USAFebruary 2 ,1996
flagicon|UKSeptember 20 ,1996
runtime = 102 min.
language = Dutch
budget = | imdb_id = 0112379"Antonia" (released as "Antonia's Line" in the
English-speaking world ) is a 1995 film by Dutch director,writer , and feministMarleen Gorris . The film, described by its director as a "feminist fairy tale," tells the story of the matronal Antonia (Willeke van Ammelrooy ) who, after returning to the anonymous Dutch village of her birth, establishes and nurtures a close-knit matriarchal community. Spanning nearly forty years starting just after World War II, it follows Antonia as she takes over the family farm, befriends a recluse, takes in the village simpleton, and provides a home for a retarded young woman who has been raped by a brother. The film covers a breadth of liberal topics, with themes ranging from death and religion to sex, intimacy, lesbianism, misandry and love. It won the1996 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, theToronto International Film Festival People's Choice award, and theNederlands Film Festival Golden Calf award. Filmed in Belgium.US DVD Antonia's Line ISBN 1-59241-059-6 UPC 87797-71119
102 minutes, Dutch with yellow English subtitles
Rated R - some nudity, sex, and violence
The cover features a female posed likeThe Birth of Venus (Botticelli) .The US version of the cover is bowdlerized, compared to some of the franker international versions. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112379/]Cast
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Willeke van Ammelrooy
*Els Dottermans
*Jan Decleir
*Dirk Zeelenberg
*Victor Löw External links
*Imdb title|title=Antonia|id=0112379
* [http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/vvcfeatures.php?id=15430 Analysis of Themes]----
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title=Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
years=1995
before="Burnt by the Sun "
after="Kolya "
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