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The Flying Dutchman
Film / 1957

The Flying Dutchman

Directed by Gerard Rutten
Drama

★ 8.0/10Audience rating

Biopic about the early years of pioneering aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker. After a fight with his teacher, headstrong Anthony Fokker refuses to return to his old school in Haarlem. Instead, he goes to a technical college in Mainz where he talks his teachers into including airplane design in the curriculum. Fokker soon starts building a prototype of his 'Spider' plane.

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Biopic about the early years of pioneering aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker. After a fight with his teacher, headstrong Anthony Fokker refuses to return to his old school in Haarlem. Instead, he goes to a technical college in Mainz where he talks his teachers into including airplane design in the curriculum. Fokker soon starts building a prototype of his 'Spider' plane.

Cast

Ton KuylAnthony Fokker Mimi BoesnachMoeder Fokker Cruys VoorberghVader Fokker Coen Flink Bob de Lange Guus Oster Bernhard Droog Paul Huf Lies Franken Paul Storm Cees Laseur Frans Weisz
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Harold Horsten Sophie Köhler-van Dijk Anne Marie Noreiger Adelheid van der Most Betsy Smeets Jules Croiset

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