Taming the Floods

Taming the Floods fulfills the dream of the landscape architect Jan Dijkstra: he can design an area in Poland that is regularly flooded by the river. Dijkstra wants to create a large nature reserve where people no longer have any influence: an area where the river can run its course and wolves can be set free. The fanatical landscape architect however does not bear in mind the needs of the local people. His younger colleague David is eventually sent to Poland to get things organised. Taming the Floods is a mixture of documentary and feature in which all the scenes are borrowed from situations which really happen or have happened. Alongside actors, roles are played by the local people, including farmers and a priest.

Country:

Netherlands

Genre:

Documentary,

Drama

Duration:

70 minutes

Year:

1999

Director:

Jan van den Berg

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Company:

drsFILM

Cast:
Jan Decleir

Frank Rigter

Andrzej Żarnecki

Karolina Wajda

Joanna Furmaga

Crew:
Jan van den Berg

Director

Jan van den Berg

Producer

Loran Kuypers

Producer

Jan van den Berg

Scenario Writer

Henk van der Haar

Scenario Writer