Overview

1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.

Cast

Gijs Scholten van Aschat

Vedder

Jacob Derwig

Anijs

Rifka Lodeizen

Martha

N/A

Zeb Troostwijk

Klein Pet

Juda Goslinga

Bennemin

N/A

Elisabeth Hesemans

Mother Bennemin

Joosje Duk

Johanna Bennemin

Sander van Amsterdam

Lubber

N/A

Houk van Warmerdam

Sieger

Thomas Cammaert

Ebert

Leon Voorberg

Henkenhaf

John Leddy

Mr. Carstens