Katie Tippel (1975)
Keetje Tippel (1975)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC, 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 01:53:31 | 5.68 Gb
Audio: Dutch AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English | Genre: Drama, Romance
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC, 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 01:53:31 | 5.68 Gb
Audio: Dutch AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English | Genre: Drama, Romance
When her impoverished family moves to Amsterdam, Katie (Monique van de Ven) must take any work she can find. After a series of exploitive and demeaning jobs, she eventually becomes a prostitute, hoping to escape crushing poverty and transcend her social position. Paul Verhoeven directed this poignant period drama before making a name for himself in Hollywood. Rutger Hauer co-stars as a wealthy banker who becomes Katie's lover.
Made in 1975 and directed by Paul Verhoeven, Katie Tippel ("Katie the Streetwalker") is a handsome period drama set in 19th-century Holland, based on a true story. The second eldest daughter in a poor, Friesland family who move to Amsterdam, Katie (Monique Van de Ven) must find whatever work is going to make ends meet. She has already learnt to have no faith in her weak father. Now, as she enters a succession of jobs in which she experiences both exploitation and sexual harassment, she learns that men want her for only one thing. Duly, at the behest of her own mother, she enters prostitution. However, when she becomes model to an artist she is finally able to escape the poverty trap and ascend the social ladder, particularly when banker Hugo (Rutger Hauer) takes her as his lover. All this is set against a backdrop of social foment as the workers' impatience at poor social conditions increases.
Although director Verhoeven, as well as Hauer and cinematographer Jan De Bont eventually became involved in mainstream American movies, Katie Tippel is very much of the European school of film-making, episodic and harsh in its depiction of everyday poverty. The dead puppy at the beginning definitely marks it as contrary to Hollywood's near-zero canine mortality rate. The sexual scenes are graphic to the point of gratuitousness but always grimly non-titillating. Budgetary limits cramp some of the mass street scenes, but generally the film is beautifully shot and ageless in feel. A far cry, certainly from Showgirls, for which Verhoeven was later responsible.Review by David Stubbs, Amazon.com
Film at IMDB Ratings: 6.7/10 from 1 437 users
Film at Wiki
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Andrea Domburg, Hannah de Leeuwe, Jan Blaaser and other
Katie Tippel (1975)
Katie Tippel (1975)
Katie Tippel (1975)
Katie Tippel (1975)
Katie Tippel (1975)
Katie Tippel (1975)
Special Features:
Paul Verhoeven Commentary (in English)
Trailers
Talent bios
All thanks to original releaser - hhmunro