De Kollega's maken de brug!

1988 [DUTCH]

Comedy

2
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 276 276

Plot summary

The movie made after the hit series "De Kollega's" starring the same characters, but rather tragicomic. When November 11, an official holiday (Armistice), falls on a Tuesday, the public service often gets an extra day off on the preceding Monday, but only after a formal ministerial decision, and this time it gets all the way trough the hierarchy to the right office- and then isn't read, so all the colleagues turn up, only to be told they should have stayed at home. It gets worse: works in progress and clumsiness end up blocking the way out both by lift and staircase, so they are stuck on their floor, apparently without a phone, while there's nobody outside who can hear and rescue them. Forced to keep their conversation going, some secrets get unearthed, and it's not a very pretty picture they got of each-other.

Director

Vincent Rouffaer Photo
Vincent Rouffaer

Top cast

Dirk Roofthooft Photo
Dirk Roofthooft as Adelbert Dockx
Ivo Pauwels Photo
Ivo Pauwels as Agent
Jos Geens Photo
Jos Geens as Omer
Jaak Van Assche Photo
Jaak Van Assche as Jean De Pesser
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
882.77 MB
958*720
Dutch 2.0
NR
nl  
50 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 3
1.6 GB
1438*1080
Dutch 2.0
NR
nl  
50 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by leroygoorts 5 / 10

Could have been better, could have been worse.

Let me start off by saying this movie was perfectly watchable. The actors and actresses do a solid job in this film. I haven't seen the series that this movie is from and i don't plan to.Long story short, a group of workers are stuck in an office space on the fourth floor. No elevator down, no ladder. They now hold out until they find a way out or are rescued. There are some funny scenes, some shots which are actually quite nice and the typical foolishness you find in any film like this.The film hurt itself however, by lacking in believability. Any film stretches realism one way or another, but i can't believe more people would hear there pleas for help as they shout from the window. This sometimes ruined the entire thing for me, which is unfortunate.All in all it's decent, don't get me wrong. Just, alas, very by the books.
Reviewed by lesilespublishers 8 / 10

Much better than I tought is wass gonna be

I was a big fan of the series. I consider the series as one of the best 'comedy' series been made in Belgium. 'Comedy' between brackets because the series give more depth and realism. Made almost 50 years ago but still very much enjoyable. Reason: the setting is very simple, a government office (pre-dating 'the office' by decades), the characters are very well written, the dialogues superb, realistic, recognisable and funny. The series became so popular the (national) broadcasting company (BRT) cancelled the show after 3 series 'because BRT must remain a serious institution and cannot become to popular'... strange days in the late seventies/eightties. Anyway, after the series stopped the writer - who, as I recall, had written more scripts and stories - wrote this movie. When it came out reviews were bad, critics used to break down every belgian movie that came out those days. So... I never saw it in the movie theatres, and just recently, after decades, saw the movie the first time. And well, much better than I feared, the mixture of the characters - even expanded by adding the home and families - and mixture of comedy and tragedy make this movie very enjoyable. The setting again is very simple, the camera-work simple but effective, the acting first class (such a bunch of great actors!). Probably the lack of budget limited the creativity of the crew, but this - in time - worked out perfect. Less is more. The only thing that's outdated is the music, typical soft 80ies soundtrack.
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