Adriaan Ditvoorst

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1940-01-23

Deathday 1987-10-18 (47 years old)

Place of Birth Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands

Adriaan Ditvoorst

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

1984
White Madness

as Director

1981
Lucifer

as Director

1978
The Mantle of Love

as Director

1975
Flanagan

as Director

1973
1970
The Fall

as Director

1969
Carna

as Director

1967
Paranoia

as Director

1965
That Way to Madra

as Director

Writer

1984
White Madness

as Screenplay

1978
1969
Carna

as Writer

1967
Paranoia

as Writer

1965

Producer

1969
Carna

as Producer

Actor

1992
The Ditvoorst Domains

as Self (archive footage)