films/documentaries
De Nieuw Amsterdam II
5 min DV
Dutch spoken
In 1939 Mr Willem Kamphuis leaves as a mechanical engineer for a trip on the Nieuw Amsterdam, the pride of the Holland America Line, to New York. He expects to be back within 18 days in order to marry his fiancee. Once arrived in New York though, Germany declares war on Europe.....
This film is part of the DVD, Rotterdam, hoe het kwam (Rotterdam, how it happened). This DVD contains 25 short films about Rotterdam's most important persons, buildings and events.
- written, directed and edited by
- Dorothée Meddens
- animation
- Rafael Croonen
- music and soundmix
- Frank Weyzig
- voice-over
- Emile Verhagen
- assisent
- Alexander Goncalves
- producers
- ETV