Director: Norbert ter Hall
Script: Frank Ketelaar
Photography: Richard Van Oosterhout
Music: Fons Merkies
Sound: Giel van Geloven, Jac Vleeshouwers
Casting: Job Gosschalk, Betty Post
Principal Cast: Marieke Heebink, Derek de Lint, Fedja van Huêt, Serge-Henri Valcke, Aart Staartjes, Theo Maassen, Bert Luppes, Emiel de Voogd, Sigrid Koetse
Producer: Arry Voorsmit
Co-Producer: Joost de Wolf
Executive Producer: Philip Bruning
Production: RIBA Film BV with the support of NOS & The Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund for VPRO Broadcasting Association
Distribution: VPRO Television
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First Broadcast: 12.05.02, VPRO
Selected Filmography Norbert ter Hall: Sesamstraat, 1976; Zeeuws meisje, 1998; Wet & Waan, 2000; Monte Carlo, 2001.
Politics is no place for honest folk. The newly appointed Ministry Official Holman (Marieke Heebink) discovers the truth of this disillusioned platitude through bitter experience. She starts out as an image-booster for a faltering coalition but quickly becomes the fall guy in a political power play. Although Holman defends herself with all the idealism she can still muster, the price of integrity turns out to be unexpectedly high. In a compelling black and white staging, director Norbert Ter Hall, from a script by Frank Ketelaar (“De trein van zes uur tien”), shows us the public demolition of a human being.