Catalogue des films de « Rob Rombout »

Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most popular Dutch writers, but relatively unrecognized in his own country. As a diplomat, Chinese specialist and scholar, he became the most famous with his detective series about Judge Dee,...

"Amsterdam Stories USA" is a road-movie tracing 15 small places in the United States, all of them named Amsterdam. Two Dutch descent filmmakers, Rogier van Eck & Rob Rombout, cross the country from East to West Coast, from their arrival in New...

En 1998, la mythique compagnie Cunard est rachetée par le géant de la croisière, le groupe Carnival. Au sein de Carnival, quelques personnes osent proposer un projet fou : construire un transatlantique dans la tradition de Cunard, mais qui...

Fascinated by travel, Rob Rombout tries to share with us his feelings as a stranger, a passer-by, who meets a region and its inhabitants and progressively shows his perception of the alsatian identity, or identities, at a given moment. He visits...

Canton is a megalopolis of eight million inhabitants. A city with no apparent structure and which is under perpetual construction. To be in China without being in China. Private thoughts, revealing signs, explorations of the city... And perhaps an...

In the heart of snowy Russia in the Ural mountains, a strange festival of documentary films takes place : the "Flahertyana", as a tribute to the American film director Robert Flaherty. In an isolated city called Perm, forty some Russian film...

Rob Rombout and Rogier van Eck decided to return to their roots, Amsterdam, via two homonymous islands near the northern and southern extremeties of the world. Four centuries later, they followed in the footsteps of two illustrious 16th century...

In 1772, Admiral Yves Kerguelen discovers an archipelago. He calls it "the 3rd world". These "Isles of Desolation", 13,000 kilometres away from Paris, have become the theatre of legendary shipwrecks and inhuman labour. In 1949, a permanent...

The Azores, isolated islands in the mid-Atlantic, are home to the group "Madredeus". Travelling from island to island, encountering older inhabitants and joyful popular festivals, singer Teresa and composer Pedro rediscover some of the mixed...

Today, there are about sixty thousand people living off-shore in the North Sea. On the FG McClintock oil rig, eighty men and one woman work seven days a week in a hostile environnment and in a restricted area, with few recreational activities and...