Adriaan Ditvoorst

Adriaan Ditvoorst

Known For: Directing

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: January 23, 1940

Day of Death: October 18, 1987 (48 years old)

Place of Birth: Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands

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Adriaan Ditvoorst was a screenwriter and director, educated at the Netherlands Film Academy. He was well-known for his experimental films. In 1967, Paranoia was selected for the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. Ditvoorst grew up in a Catholic family. When he was only ten years old, his father died in a car accident. Both death and Catholicism became important themes in Ditvoorst’s work, as in Carna (1969), shot in his birthplace Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands.