Business Is Business | |
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DVD release cover
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Directed by | Paul Verhoeven |
Produced by | Rob Houwer |
Written by |
Albert Mol Gerard Soeteman |
Starring |
Ronnie Bierman Sylvia de Leur Piet Römer Jules Hamel |
Music by | Jack Trombey (Jan Stoeckart) |
Cinematography | Jan de Bont |
Edited by | Jan Bosdriesz |
Release date
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10 September 1971 (Netherlands) 29 December 1972 (Finland) |
Running time
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90 minutes |
Country | Netherlands |
Language | Dutch |
Budget | US $116,421 |
Business Is Business (Dutch title: Wat zien ik) is a 1971 comedy film. The film is directed by Paul Verhoeven, and stars Ronnie Bierman, Sylvia de Leur, Piet Römer, and Jules Hamel. The story is about the lives of two prostitutes in Amsterdam, and is based on two books written by Albert Mol.
This film marks the debut of cinematographer, Jan de Bont.
The film is about the customers and personal lives of Greet (Ronnie Bierman) and Nel (Sylvia de Leur), two female prostitutes in Amsterdam. Greet and Nel are friends and live on different floors of the same canal house at the Prinsengracht. In this house they also receive customers.
Greet roleplays the customers' sexual fantasies. These incidents are recounted in the form of anecdotes throughout the film. The roleplaying involves Greet being a wigged witch, a schoolteacher, a feathered chicken, a corpse, a woman commanding her cleaner, and a surgeon. Sometimes Nel assists her by playing a part in the roleplaying.