Rudolf van den Berg (born 1949, Rotterdam) is a Dutch writer and director.
Van den Berg has been making films and documentaries for over thirty years now. Often praised and crowned, sometimes seriously criticized, Van den Berg's work has always succeeded in stirring passionate reactions.
His eighth feature film Tirza was released in September 2010. It is a heart-breaking, edgy story of a man in search of his missing daughter. In the desert of Namibia the father will be forced to confront the man who destroyed the life of his favorite child. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards[1] but it didn't make the final shortlist.[2]
Shooting of his next film, 'Süskind', a war story, written by Chris W. Mitchell and Van den Berg himself, is scheduled for the end of 2010. Just as Tirza, it is also as a coproduction between Cadenza Films and FuWorks.