Hans, Life Before Death (1983)
• January 1st, 1983 • 2h 35min
Documentary
Overview
Hans: Het Leven voor de dood (Hans, Life Before Death) is a documentary feature film about the life of the young composer Hans van Sweeden (1939-1963) and those who knew him intimately. The film is about the harrowing life of the musician, poet and actor Hans van Sweeden (1939-1963), who ended his life at the age of 24. Simultaneously, the film offers a poignant portrait of his contemporaries in the turbulent fifties and sixties and the children of the Nazis. It won the Golden Calf for Best Feature Film in 1983. Award of the Dutch film critics, 1983; the Belgian film critics Award, 1984; Best Dutch Documentary 1980-1990. (Wikipedia)
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Gray Matters
Released on: 2016-05-27
Documentary
Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Ei...
Svetsaren i Rosenbad
Released on: 2019-05-30
Documentary, TV Movie
Depicts the path of the boy from the orphanage, the cottage in Sunnersta to the Sagerska Palace and ...
The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton
Released on: 2003-03-27
Documentary, History
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved ...
Julia Dujmovits – Atme den Moment
Released on: 2022-02-28
Documentary
The ServusTV documentary accompanies Dujmovits on her way back to the top of the world. A path that ...
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
Released on: 2015-10-13
TV Movie, Documentary
Not only did Mary Tyler Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared,...
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
Released on: 2010-01-01
Documentary
A documentary about the making of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 film "Le silence de la mer"
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Released on: 2021-11-19
Documentary, Drama
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he g...
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
Released on: 2019-06-05
Documentary
An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with ...
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
Released on: 2017-09-29
Documentary
This is the remarkable story of an American icon who changed the sport of big wave surfing forever. ...
I Am Not a Freak
Released on: 1987-11-01
Documentary, TV Movie
This film is a fascinating look at some people afflicted with congenital deformities of an extreme n...
Adam Jensen: The Life, The Loss & The Grind
Released on: 2024-05-08
Documentary
Take a journey through the eyes of 25-year-old aspiring professional skateboarder, Adam Jensen to se...
Ver a Hilda Vera
Released on: 1998-10-22
Documentary
A living room, two video cameras, an armchair, two televisions and a mirror: domestic daily life in ...
The Florence Foster Jenkins Story
Released on: 2016-11-10
Documentary, Drama
Florence Foster Jenkins is known as "the worst singer of all times" and yet she is a cult figure who...
Dylan
Released on: 2014-11-03
Documentary
A young trans man tells his story on a early morning journey to Coney Island.
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Released on: 1994-08-09
Documentary, TV Movie
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, se...
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Released on: 1998-03-17
Documentary
Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Gary Cooper's horse-riding sk...
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Released on: 1996-03-15
Documentary
He went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academ...
Pelé
Released on: 2021-02-23
Documentary
Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary pa...
Red Army
Released on: 2014-08-13
Documentary, History
A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and wo...
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Released on: 1997-05-12
Documentary
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...