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Young Kees

Young Kees

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 27, 2003

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Drama, Family

User Score

73%

Original Title

Kees de Jongen

Production Companies

Sigma Pictures

Director

André van Duren

Description

Little boy Kees is based on the famous classical masterpiece by Theo Thijssen and deals with a twelve year old Amsterdam schoolboy who grows up at the end of the 19th century in the Jordaan (part of Amsterdam. Kees Bakels is a dreamer who seeks refuge from reality with wild imagination where he dares more than in real life. Through his fathers illness and his young love for Rosa Overbeek he develops himself as someone who acts and assumes responsibility.