The Good Hope

Name: The Good Hope
Director: Louis Saalborn
Genre: Drama
Released: 1934-12-21
Rating: 8.0
Cast: Esther de Boer-van Rijk, Philip Dorn, Jan Van Ees, Annie Verhulst, Willem van der Veer

Fisherman’s widow Kniertje urges her two younger sons to set sail on the ‘Op hoop van zegen’, a heavily insured floating wreck which duly goes down in a storm. Kniertje is left behind, alone and lonely. Based on Herman Heijermans’ socialist-inspired Dutch theatre classic.