Actor

Frans Zwartjes

Directing

Career Snapshot

Explained

These indicators come from TMDB. They are relative signals, not review ratings.

Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.2

Low visibility

TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.

Movies: 14Series: 0Crew credits: 14

TMDB ID: 1081524

IMDb ID: nm0958975

Known for: Directing

Born: May 13, 1927

Died: November 18, 2017

Age: 90

Place of birth: Alkmaar, Netherlands

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1967 - 2015

Years active: 49

Wikidata: Q3139748

Other jobs

Director (11)Cinematography (1)Music (1)Writer (1)

TMDB TMDB IMDb IMDb W Wikidata

Biography

Frans Zwartjes (*Alkmaar, 5/13/1927–The Hague, 11/18/2017) was a film maker, musician, violin maker, artist and sculptor. In the late 1960's he became well known with films showing grotesquely dressed up actors involved in little power-mad sexual games. Hysterics and cruelty are his regular topics. Susan Sontag called Zwartjes "the most important contemporary experimental film maker". Zwartjes made over fifty films. Pentimento (1979), Living (1971) and Ín Extremo (1981) seem to be his best known films. Director Ruud Monster's documentary The Great Wizard portrays Zwartjes as a self-conscious artist who comments on the world in a farcical way. The film was partly shot at Zwartjes's home, while he was composing.