Directed by:
Erik de BruynScreenplay:
Erik de BruynCinematography:
Joost van GelderComposer:
David van der HeydenCast:
Fedja van Huêt, Frank Lammers, Frederik Brom, Will van Kralingen, Josse De Pauw, Angélique de Bruijne, Melek Karasu, Martin Dunne, Hans Veerman, Freark Smink (more)Plots(1)
Film about three friends in a fishing village on an island in Zeeland. The conservative village offers little more than the church services and the boring annual mussel feast. Leen, Daan and Jacob break out of the rut with bike racing, their own rock band and wild parties at the motorbike club. The hard-man Leen, leader of the three, wants to escape from the narrow-minded milieu where his mother's love threatens to suffocate him. After a strange meeting with an Irishman , he hatches the plan to leave for Ireland with his make-believe girlfriend. With his friends, Leen daydreams about taking part in the motorbike race in Ostend and a CD recording for their band. However they don't have the money and Leen thinks up a hairbrained scheme to get some. He drags his friends along. Wild Mussels was shot entirely in the dialect of Zeeland. (Nederlands Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Fedja van Huêt
Netherlands
Best movies:
Character (1997)
The Delivery (1999)
Accused (2014)
Frank Lammers
Netherlands
Best movies:
Black Book (2006)
Admiral (2015)
Wild Mussels (2000)
Frederik Brom
Netherlands
Best movies:
Wild Mussels (2000)
Clean Hands (2015)
The Wonder Weeks (2023)
Will van Kralingen
Netherlands
Best movies:
Wild Mussels (2000)
Josse De Pauw
Belgium
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
The Eighth Day (1996)
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
Angélique de Bruijne
Netherlands
Best movies:
Wild Mussels (2000)
The Indian (2009)
Snapshots (2002)
Melek Karasu
Turkey
Best movies:
Wild Mussels (2000)
Martin Dunne
Best movies:
Braveheart (1995)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Frankie Starlight (1995)
Hans Veerman
Netherlands
Best movies:
Flesh+Blood (1985)
Wild Mussels (2000)
The Fourth Man (1983)
Freark Smink
Netherlands
Best movies:
For a Lost Soldier (1992)
Sportsman of the Century (2006)
Wild Mussels (2000)
Marina de Graaf
Netherlands
Best movies:
Antonia's Line (1995)
Mysteries (1978)
Wild Mussels (2000)
Malou Elshout
Best movies:
Wild Mussels (2000)
Manuel Dijselinck
Best movies:
Wild Mussels (2000)
Erik Holm
Best movies:
Wild Mussels (2000)
Roos Blok
Best movies:
Wild Mussels (2000)