Van de Schoonheid en de Troost

Season 1 Episode 11: When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland

Interview with Rutger Kopland, Dutch poet (pseudonym of Rudy van den Hoofdakker, psychiatrist) (in his garden house/study in Glimmen, located on the Assen - Groningen railway line). Kopland talks about his daughters, his youth, happiness, adulthood versus the youthful perspective, his grandparents, health, his heart problems/infarction, the emotional charge and intensity of memories, melancholy, glorification of childhood, homesickness, poetry, the experience of comfort and beauty, finiteness, (death) fear, his mother and father and their death, emotion and fascination. Kopland recites some of his poems during the interview.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

27

Actor:

Wim Kayzer

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

2000

IMDb:

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