De grens (1984) : distribution, intrigue et streaming

Released in 1984, De grens is a thriller film directed by Leon de Winter, running about 100 minutes.

What it’s about. Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are mixed-up in time and in location, thereby dashing any hope of following the story. A journalist goes to a southern European country to interview a well-known terrorist who has refused to stop his activities even though the revolution he fought for ended successfully five years earlier. Questions are raised about adopting violence as a way of life without at first realizing it and about the seeming impossibility of raising the consciousness of backwater cultures. Perhaps because of the way the story has been filleted into fragments, characters like the journalist and terrorist do not have enough continuous screen time to build up their individuality, a second factor that makes it difficult to become involved in the drama.

Who’s in it. De grens stars Johan Leysen as Hans Deitz, Linda van Dyck as Marleen Ruyter, Angela Winkler as Rosa Clement and André Dussollier as Marcel Boas, among others.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch De grens page.

If you liked it. Fans of De grens tend to enjoy The Dark Knight : Le Chevalier noir, Pulp Fiction, Parasite and Fight Club.