DUTCH GREAT FILMMAKER HAANSTRA

This is 105th birth anniversary year of world famous Dutch Filmmaker.. Bert Haanstra!

 

Dutch Filmmaker..Bert Haanstra with camera!

Leading pioneer of non-fiction Dutch cinema..Albert 'Bert' - Haanstra became professional documentary maker in 1947. 

 

He got international acclaim with his short film 'Mirror of Holland' for which he won 'Grand Prix du court metrage' at 'Cannes Film - Festival' in 1951!

In 1958, Bert Haanstra's film 'Glass' won the..'Academy Award for Best - Documentary Short'!

 

Bert Haanstra's film 'Glass' (1958).

He also made fiction films in which a comedy.. 'Fanfare' (1958) is Netherlands' popular classic movie!

Haanstra was famous for making fun between objects in films & human beings..like in 'Glass'..And in short film 'Zoo' (1962) he compared behaviour of animals with human attitude!

Tribute to this master documentary maker!!

- Manoj Kulkarni