Whitey (1934)
1h 40m
Running Time
June 26, 1934Release Date
Plot.
The first movie version, from the age of black & white, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character: a smart but naughty farmhand's son whose eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy's punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe.
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Cast & Crew.
Magda Janssens
Moeder
Remy Angenot
Mijnheer Boon
Jef Van Leemput Sr.
Vader
Willem Benoy
Hoofdonderwijzer
Jef Van Leemput Jr.
Mulder
Jef Bruyninckx
De Witte
Jef Bruyninckx
De Witte
Gaston Smet
Niske
Nand Buyl
Makker (I)
Jan Vanderheyden
Director
Nora Oosterwijk
Treske
Ernest Claes
Writer
Edith Kiel
Writer
Renaat Veremans
Composer
Ewald Daub
Cinematographer
Willem Cauwenberg
Onderwijzer
Walter von Bonhorst
Editor
Wim De Gruyter
Makker (II)
Frida Gonissen
Marieke
Germaine Loosveldt
Vrouw van Mulder
Jozef Sterkens
Tenor
Betty Van Roey
Marie-Louise
Ida Wasserman
Lieske
Erwald Daub
Cinematography
Walter Van Bonhorst
Editor
Jules Dirickx
Details.
Wiki.
De Witte is a Belgian film of 1934 in black and white, directed by Jan Vanderheyden. It is an adaptation of the homonymous book by Ernest Claes.
De Witte was the first Flemish film production with sound and at the same time it was also very successful. Weeks after the première in Antwerp's Cinema Colosseum the public kept coming to the picture.