Suspense doesn’t get lost in translation on this Dutch-language series about two detectives who infiltrate the world of a drug lord. Here’s why you should catch up before the series returns for Season 3 on January 10. The thrill of the case Under pressure and facing sky-high stakes, Bob Lemmens and shrewd partner Kim De Rooij (Anna Drijver) can butt heads while immersing themselves in this dangerous landscape—a stark contrast to their depressingly normal home lives. The big bad Drug kingpin Ferry Bouman (Frank Lammers) has become such a fan favorite, he even received his own prequel movie, Ferry, documenting his origin story. The new season will see him looking to take his empire back, and on a collision course with Bob, who has his own serious set of headaches. The shocking deaths Try not to grow too attached to the characters: As Bob goes to extreme lengths to do what the job takes,...
- 1/2/2022
- TV Insider
"Undercover" is the Dutch-language crime drama TV series, starring Tom Waes, Anna Drijver and Frank Lammers, inspired by real-life events, following undercover agents who infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation, with Season Two streaming November 8, 2020 on Netflix:
"...in Limburg, a Belgian province bordering the Netherlands, the infiltration is executed by two agents, 'Bob Lemmens' (Waes) and 'Kim de Rooij' (Drijver)...
"...who pose as a couple at the campground..
"...where an 'ecstasy' drug kingpin spends his weekends..."
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"...in Limburg, a Belgian province bordering the Netherlands, the infiltration is executed by two agents, 'Bob Lemmens' (Waes) and 'Kim de Rooij' (Drijver)...
"...who pose as a couple at the campground..
"...where an 'ecstasy' drug kingpin spends his weekends..."
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- 9/7/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Undercover" is the Dutch-language crime drama TV series, starring Tom Waes, Anna Drijver and Frank Lammers, inspired by real-life events, following undercover agents who infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation, with Season Two streaming September 6, 2020 on Netflix:
"...in Limburg, a Belgian province bordering the Netherlands, the infiltration is executed by two agents, 'Bob Lemmens' (Waes) and 'Kim de Rooij' (Drijver)...
"...who pose as a couple at the campground..
"...where an 'ecstasy' drug kingpin spends his weekends..."
Click the images to enlarge...
"...in Limburg, a Belgian province bordering the Netherlands, the infiltration is executed by two agents, 'Bob Lemmens' (Waes) and 'Kim de Rooij' (Drijver)...
"...who pose as a couple at the campground..
"...where an 'ecstasy' drug kingpin spends his weekends..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 8/9/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
A second season of Netflix’s first Benelux original, “Undercover,” is in production, and the story will move from focusing on the illicit drugs trade to the illegal arms business.
Non-English-language drama is finding a global audience on streaming platforms, and “Undercover” has ranked as one of Netflix’s most popular series in that category in the U.K. and fared well in Latin America and elsewhere.
The first run followed the a pair of cops from the Dutch and Belgian police forces going undercover to bust a drug ring manufacturing Ecstasy. Belgian pubcaster Vrt aired it locally and Netflix launched it in the U.S. and rest of the world, with the exceptions of France and Germany.
The second season, like the first, will comprise 10 installments. It is set a year after the events of the first run and will again follow Kim De Rooij, played by Anna Drijver,...
Non-English-language drama is finding a global audience on streaming platforms, and “Undercover” has ranked as one of Netflix’s most popular series in that category in the U.K. and fared well in Latin America and elsewhere.
The first run followed the a pair of cops from the Dutch and Belgian police forces going undercover to bust a drug ring manufacturing Ecstasy. Belgian pubcaster Vrt aired it locally and Netflix launched it in the U.S. and rest of the world, with the exceptions of France and Germany.
The second season, like the first, will comprise 10 installments. It is set a year after the events of the first run and will again follow Kim De Rooij, played by Anna Drijver,...
- 6/26/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Despite reports to the contrary, Netflix had two titles at Canneseries: Harlan Coben’s closing night drama “Safe,” with “Dexter’s” Michael C. Hall, and Nico Moolenaar’s “Undercover,” a Belgian crime thriller which the streaming giant boarded early in development, taking global rights outside France, Germany and Belgium and announcing “Undercover” last November as its first Belgian-Dutch co-production.
Given Netflix does not have first-window TV rights to either show in France – that privilege on “Undercover” goes to Federation Ent., which also sells second TV window outside German-speaking territories and Belgium – Netflix’s large a<nd early involvement with “Undercover” may have been lost on most market attendees.
In two ways at least, “Undercover” is a sign of the industry times: Its multi-lateral multi window financing; its grounding in a specific reality.
Produced for Flemish pubcaster Vrt by Belgium’s De Mensen, in co-production with Dutch FilmWorks, Good Friends, Gardner and Domm,...
Given Netflix does not have first-window TV rights to either show in France – that privilege on “Undercover” goes to Federation Ent., which also sells second TV window outside German-speaking territories and Belgium – Netflix’s large a<nd early involvement with “Undercover” may have been lost on most market attendees.
In two ways at least, “Undercover” is a sign of the industry times: Its multi-lateral multi window financing; its grounding in a specific reality.
Produced for Flemish pubcaster Vrt by Belgium’s De Mensen, in co-production with Dutch FilmWorks, Good Friends, Gardner and Domm,...
- 4/16/2018
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The event launches in Cannes this April.
Canneseries, the international TV festival launching in Cannes this April (7-11), has revealed the ten series in its official competition selection.
Scroll down for full line-up
The titles include Killing Eve created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) and starring Sandra Oh and Fiona Shaw, and Aquí En La Terra, created by Gael García Bernal with Kyzza Terrazas and Jorge Dorantes.
The titles were selected by Canneseries artistic director Albin Lewi.
The festival was founded by David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes and presided by former French culture minister Fleur Pellerin. It will run alongside Miptv.
Canneseries, the international TV festival launching in Cannes this April (7-11), has revealed the ten series in its official competition selection.
Scroll down for full line-up
The titles include Killing Eve created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) and starring Sandra Oh and Fiona Shaw, and Aquí En La Terra, created by Gael García Bernal with Kyzza Terrazas and Jorge Dorantes.
The titles were selected by Canneseries artistic director Albin Lewi.
The festival was founded by David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes and presided by former French culture minister Fleur Pellerin. It will run alongside Miptv.
- 3/13/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – A glance at the premise of Ben Sombogaart’s “Bride Flight” would lead one to believe that the entire film chronicled the 1953 long distance air race from London to Christchurch, New Zealand. Yet that backdrop merely serves as the launching pad for a plethora of melodramatic fireworks. Despite occasional moments of hokum, the film benefits greatly from its three splendid leads.
Instead of focusing on the race itself, Marieke van der Pol’s script centers on a trio of female immigrants from Holland who board the plane known as The Flying Dutchman (dubbed “Bride Flight”) to meet their fiancés as they make a new home in New Zealand. Yet a chance encounter with a handsome young ladykiller, Frank (Waldemar Torenstra), proves to have a lasting impact on their lives. What follows is a relatively standard romantic tearjerker much like “Bridges of Madison County” with a dash of post-wwii intrigue.
Instead of focusing on the race itself, Marieke van der Pol’s script centers on a trio of female immigrants from Holland who board the plane known as The Flying Dutchman (dubbed “Bride Flight”) to meet their fiancés as they make a new home in New Zealand. Yet a chance encounter with a handsome young ladykiller, Frank (Waldemar Torenstra), proves to have a lasting impact on their lives. What follows is a relatively standard romantic tearjerker much like “Bridges of Madison County” with a dash of post-wwii intrigue.
- 10/4/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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Bride Flight, the sumptuous post-World War II romantic saga directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ben Sombogaart (Twin Sisters), arrived on Blu-ray on Sept. 20, and Music Box Films Home Entertainment has given Disc Dish three copies of the Blu-ray to give away to three lucky Dd readers!
Bride Flight, the most expensive Dutch film production of all time, is the tale of three Dutch beauties (Elise Schaap, Karina Smulders and Anna Drijver) who meet on an airplane in the aftermath of the war as they’re emigrating to New Zealand to meet their husbands-to-be. The movie has it all: love, loss, faith, betrayal and, of course, triumph.
On Blu-ray, the movie is...
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Bride Flight, the sumptuous post-World War II romantic saga directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ben Sombogaart (Twin Sisters), arrived on Blu-ray on Sept. 20, and Music Box Films Home Entertainment has given Disc Dish three copies of the Blu-ray to give away to three lucky Dd readers!
Bride Flight, the most expensive Dutch film production of all time, is the tale of three Dutch beauties (Elise Schaap, Karina Smulders and Anna Drijver) who meet on an airplane in the aftermath of the war as they’re emigrating to New Zealand to meet their husbands-to-be. The movie has it all: love, loss, faith, betrayal and, of course, triumph.
On Blu-ray, the movie is...
- 9/22/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Anna Drijver connects with Waldemar Torenstra in Bride Flight.
On Sept. 20, Music Box Films Home Entertainment will release the 2008 Dutch epic romantic drama Bride Flight on Blu-ray and DVD, for the suggested retail prices of $38.94 and $29.95, respectively.
The movie tells the tale of three Dutch beauties — Marjorie (Elise Schaap), Ada (Karina Smulders) and Esther (Anna Drijver) — who meet on an airplane in the aftermath of World War II as they’re emigrating to New Zealand to meet their husbands-to-be. During the flight, the three become fast friends before meeting Frank (Waldemar Torenstra), a dashing young man who also yearns to start a new and better life. It’s this chance meeting that will mark a changing point in their lives—a destiny-altering encounter that will be revealed to the women when they reunite 50 years later at Frank’s funeral.
The most expensive film ever made in the Netherlands, Bride Flight...
On Sept. 20, Music Box Films Home Entertainment will release the 2008 Dutch epic romantic drama Bride Flight on Blu-ray and DVD, for the suggested retail prices of $38.94 and $29.95, respectively.
The movie tells the tale of three Dutch beauties — Marjorie (Elise Schaap), Ada (Karina Smulders) and Esther (Anna Drijver) — who meet on an airplane in the aftermath of World War II as they’re emigrating to New Zealand to meet their husbands-to-be. During the flight, the three become fast friends before meeting Frank (Waldemar Torenstra), a dashing young man who also yearns to start a new and better life. It’s this chance meeting that will mark a changing point in their lives—a destiny-altering encounter that will be revealed to the women when they reunite 50 years later at Frank’s funeral.
The most expensive film ever made in the Netherlands, Bride Flight...
- 7/20/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
If this story had been filmed in the 1930′s during the ” golden age’ of Hollywood it might have been condescendingly referred to as a “woman’s picture”. Jack Warner might have cast Bette Davis, Oliva DeHaviland, and Miriam Hopkins as the three female leads. Perhaps that important lead male role would have gone to George Brent ( or later in the decade by Errol Flynn ). But this tale begins in the modern age and spends most of it’s time in the early 1950′s. And while MGM or Warners would’ve shot on the studio back lot and on nearby California ranches, this film showcases the scenic wonders on New Zealand. Also this film features several terrific young actors who recite the dialogue in their native language of Holland. And of course modern times allow a greater intimacy during scenes of passion. Instead of calling this a “woman’s picture” a...
- 6/25/2011
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Title: Bride Flight Director: Ben Sombogaart Starring: Karina Smulders, Elise Schaap, Anna Drijver, Waldemar Torenstra, Rutger Hauer Based on the novel by Marieke van der Pol, Dutch import ‘Bride Flight’ is emblematic of the particular sort of heritage cinema that is from the outside and at first glance stuffy and a bit boring but, if one gives it time and an open heart and mind, eventually blossoms due to the strength of its characterizations. Directed by Ben Sombogaart (‘Twin Sisters’) and based on true events, the film opens in the present day at a funeral and then flashes back to 1953, as a plane full of (mostly betrothed) women escape...
- 6/18/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Love Life
Guest Review by Dog Ate My Wookie
Stars: Anna Drijver, Barry Atsma, Carice van Houten | Written by Gert Embrechts | Directed by Reinout Oerlemans
When I got the press release for Love Life (aka Stricken), I didn’t read it… I like to judge books by their covers and this one was littered with boobies and a naked man! Little did I know I’d need tissues for a whole other reason by the time Love Life had come to a close. I don’t know who Yellow Knife (the distributors) are but if this is the drama, the calibre of film they’re bringing to the UK market then perhaps they’re a label to watch.
It’s human nature to take life for granted and successful ad exec Stijn (Atsma) is a man who likes to dip his wick over and over again, he’s riding the...
Guest Review by Dog Ate My Wookie
Stars: Anna Drijver, Barry Atsma, Carice van Houten | Written by Gert Embrechts | Directed by Reinout Oerlemans
When I got the press release for Love Life (aka Stricken), I didn’t read it… I like to judge books by their covers and this one was littered with boobies and a naked man! Little did I know I’d need tissues for a whole other reason by the time Love Life had come to a close. I don’t know who Yellow Knife (the distributors) are but if this is the drama, the calibre of film they’re bringing to the UK market then perhaps they’re a label to watch.
It’s human nature to take life for granted and successful ad exec Stijn (Atsma) is a man who likes to dip his wick over and over again, he’s riding the...
- 6/16/2011
- by Guest
- Nerdly
See poster and images from Bride Flight, starring Waldemar Torenstra, Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Rutger Hauer and Pleuni Touw. Ben Sombogaart directs from the screenplay by Marieke van der Pol. The drama is produced by Anton Smit & Hanneke Niens and opened this weekend. Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-wwii Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends...
- 6/12/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See poster and images from Bride Flight, starring Waldemar Torenstra, Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Rutger Hauer and Pleuni Touw. Ben Sombogaart directs from the screenplay by Marieke van der Pol. The drama is produced by Anton Smit & Hanneke Niens and opened this weekend. Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-wwii Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends...
- 6/12/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See poster and images from Bride Flight, starring Waldemar Torenstra, Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Rutger Hauer and Pleuni Touw. Ben Sombogaart directs from the screenplay by Marieke van der Pol. The drama is produced by Anton Smit & Hanneke Niens and opened this weekend. Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-wwii Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends...
- 6/12/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Ben Sombogaart’s Dutch melodrama Bride Flight is flooded with nostalgia, but not for the era (the 1950s and ’60s) or place (mostly New Zealand) where it’s set. It’s informed by a longing for tone, not time, resulting in a vague, hazy aesthetic that floods every available space with as much light as it can hold. The story centers around three women—mousy farm girl Karina Smulders, fashion designer Anna Drijver, and aspirant housewife Elise Schaap—who hop aboard a plane bound for the antipodes, part of an attempt to break air-travel records; for unspecified reasons, the plane ...
- 6/9/2011
- avclub.com
Reviewed by Amy R. Handler
(June 2011)
Directed by: Ben Sombogaart
Written by: Marieke van der Pol
Featuring: Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Waldemar Torenstra, Pleuni Touw, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Petra Laseur, Rutger Hauer and Mykola Allen
“Bride Flight” is a haunting masterpiece that combines the power of “Doctor Zhivago” with the ambiguity of “The End of the Affair.” The result is a psychological joyride of epic proportions.
Based upon the best-selling novel of the same name, “Bride Flight” focuses on three young Dutch women — Ada (Karina Smulders), Marjorie (Elise Schaap) and Esther (Anna Drijver) — who marry by proxy and travel to New Zealand for their formal weddings. The year is 1953, and the women are part of a select group of emigrant passengers chosen to travel aboard Klm in the Last Great Air Race from London to Christchurch. En route, the three women happen to meet a particularly gallant young man seated nearby,...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Ben Sombogaart
Written by: Marieke van der Pol
Featuring: Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Waldemar Torenstra, Pleuni Touw, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Petra Laseur, Rutger Hauer and Mykola Allen
“Bride Flight” is a haunting masterpiece that combines the power of “Doctor Zhivago” with the ambiguity of “The End of the Affair.” The result is a psychological joyride of epic proportions.
Based upon the best-selling novel of the same name, “Bride Flight” focuses on three young Dutch women — Ada (Karina Smulders), Marjorie (Elise Schaap) and Esther (Anna Drijver) — who marry by proxy and travel to New Zealand for their formal weddings. The year is 1953, and the women are part of a select group of emigrant passengers chosen to travel aboard Klm in the Last Great Air Race from London to Christchurch. En route, the three women happen to meet a particularly gallant young man seated nearby,...
- 6/7/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Amy R. Handler
(June 2011)
Directed by: Ben Sombogaart
Written by: Marieke van der Pol
Featuring: Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Waldemar Torenstra, Pleuni Touw, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Petra Laseur, Rutger Hauer and Mykola Allen
“Bride Flight” is a haunting masterpiece that combines the power of “Doctor Zhivago” with the ambiguity of “The End of the Affair.” The result is a psychological joyride of epic proportions.
Based upon the best-selling novel of the same name, “Bride Flight” focuses on three young Dutch women — Ada (Karina Smulders), Marjorie (Elise Schaap) and Esther (Anna Drijver) — who marry by proxy and travel to New Zealand for their formal weddings. The year is 1953, and the women are part of a select group of emigrant passengers chosen to travel aboard Klm in the Last Great Air Race from London to Christchurch. En route, the three women happen to meet a particularly gallant young man seated nearby,...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Ben Sombogaart
Written by: Marieke van der Pol
Featuring: Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Waldemar Torenstra, Pleuni Touw, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Petra Laseur, Rutger Hauer and Mykola Allen
“Bride Flight” is a haunting masterpiece that combines the power of “Doctor Zhivago” with the ambiguity of “The End of the Affair.” The result is a psychological joyride of epic proportions.
Based upon the best-selling novel of the same name, “Bride Flight” focuses on three young Dutch women — Ada (Karina Smulders), Marjorie (Elise Schaap) and Esther (Anna Drijver) — who marry by proxy and travel to New Zealand for their formal weddings. The year is 1953, and the women are part of a select group of emigrant passengers chosen to travel aboard Klm in the Last Great Air Race from London to Christchurch. En route, the three women happen to meet a particularly gallant young man seated nearby,...
- 6/7/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
On behalf of Music Box Films, we have a glimpse at the poster and a couple stills from the new film Bride Flight, by Academy Award-nominated director Ben Sombogaart. Bride Flight stars Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Karina Smuldersm, Waldemar Torenstra and Rutger Hauer.
Bride Flight is scheduled to open in Los Angeles and New York on June 10, 2011 followed by a national release.
Spanning over five decades, Bride Flight is inspired by the true story of the 1953 “Last Great Air Race” London-Christchurch (Nz), and follows Esther (Anna Drijver), Ada (Karina Smulders) and Marjorie (Elise Schaap), three young women who, eager to escape post-wwii Holland, emigrate to New Zealand for what they hope will be a better life. On the plane trip overseas – dubbed the “Bride Flight” – the three become fast friends and meet Frank, a dashing young man (played by Waldemar Torenstra and Rutger Hauer - Blade Runner/Hobo with a...
Bride Flight is scheduled to open in Los Angeles and New York on June 10, 2011 followed by a national release.
Spanning over five decades, Bride Flight is inspired by the true story of the 1953 “Last Great Air Race” London-Christchurch (Nz), and follows Esther (Anna Drijver), Ada (Karina Smulders) and Marjorie (Elise Schaap), three young women who, eager to escape post-wwii Holland, emigrate to New Zealand for what they hope will be a better life. On the plane trip overseas – dubbed the “Bride Flight” – the three become fast friends and meet Frank, a dashing young man (played by Waldemar Torenstra and Rutger Hauer - Blade Runner/Hobo with a...
- 5/24/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Our friends over at Obsessed with Film have a brand new trailer for Carice van Houten’s new movie, Love Life. The trailer does a great job of telling the story of the movie which if you watch the red band version of this trailer, you’ll realise it seems to have rather a lot of sex in it!
Love Life (or the dutch title ‘Stricken’ also stars Barry Atsma, Anna Drijver, Jeroen Willems, Pierre Bokma, Eline Van der Velden, Sacha Bulthuis and is directed by Reinout Oerlemans. The movie is based on the novel called ‘A Woman Goes to the Doctor’ (Komt Een Vrouw bij de Dokter) which tell us has been translated into no less than 26 languages.
Synopsis: Stijn loves life and life loves him. He’s got his own business, a wonderful daughter and Carmen, his beautiful wife. There’s no need for her to know that...
Love Life (or the dutch title ‘Stricken’ also stars Barry Atsma, Anna Drijver, Jeroen Willems, Pierre Bokma, Eline Van der Velden, Sacha Bulthuis and is directed by Reinout Oerlemans. The movie is based on the novel called ‘A Woman Goes to the Doctor’ (Komt Een Vrouw bij de Dokter) which tell us has been translated into no less than 26 languages.
Synopsis: Stijn loves life and life loves him. He’s got his own business, a wonderful daughter and Carmen, his beautiful wife. There’s no need for her to know that...
- 10/22/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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