Borgman (film)

Borgman

Film poster
Directed by Alex van Warmerdam
Written by Alex van Warmerdam
Starring Jan Bijvoet
Cinematography Tom Erisman
Distributed by Cinéart
Release date
  • 19 May 2013 (2013-05-19) (Cannes)
  • 29 August 2013 (2013-08-29) (Netherlands)
Running time
 118 minutes
Country Netherlands
Language Dutch

Borgman is a 2013 Dutch psychological thriller drama film directed by Alex van Warmerdam. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It was screened in the Vanguard section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[2] The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards,[3] but it was not nominated.

Plot

An armed priest, together with two other men drives a hobo and his companions from their underground hideout. The hobo, identifying himself as Anton, then appears at the door of the mansion. There, he encounters Richard and Marina, the upper-class married couple with three children, He claims he knows Marina and demands food and bath. Due to his aggressive behaviour, Richard gets angry and violently beats him. However, Marina, driven by guilt and curiosity, decides to help him and offers him to live in the garden shed, without Richard knowing it. During Richard's absence Anton apparently befriends Marina and all three children. He has the ability to control Marina's dreams, so she starts to despise her husband while starting to like Anton.

One day Anton leaves the family and meets his mysterious team, Ludwig, Pascal, Brenda and Ilonka, who start a very sinister plot against the family. They poison the family gardener and murder his wife, then they plan to return to the family, with Anton posing as a new gardener. Now well-dressed and shaven, he identifies himself as Camiel Borgman and takes a job of the gardener. He gets the guest room while his team settles in a garden shed and slowly get more role in the life of the family.

Soon it is revealed that both Camiel and his team have the ability to control the people, corrupt their minds or killing them in a cold blood, if deemed necessary. Camiel seduces Marina so much that she wants Richard dead, while Pascal seduces the family babysitter Stina, causing her to become hostile towards her boyfriend. The team also takes the children into the hideout to perform some kind of surgery on them, causing them to be more comfortable with Camiel and his team than with their own parents. The team then poisons Richard. Marina, hoping to be with Camiel, is shocked when he calmly refuses her advances. He poisons her later, and both she and Richard are buried under the garden. Camiel, his team, Stina and the children then depart into the unknown.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2013 Official Selection". Cannes. 18 April 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Borgman". TIFF. Archived from the original on 3 August 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Netherlands enters Borgman into Oscar race". Screendaily. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
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