Spectrum Film
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Louis van Gasteren (1987)
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| Born |
20 November 1922 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 10 May 2016 (aged 93) |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1951–2016 |
| Spouse(s) | Joke Meerman |
| Awards |
Golden Calf for Hans: Het Leven Voor De Dood (1983) Golden Calf for De prijs van overleven (2003) |
| Website | www.louisvangasteren.nl |
Louis Alphonse van Gasteren (20 November 1922 – 10 May 2016) was a Dutch film director, film producer, and artist. He was born in Amsterdam. He is the son of actor Louis van Gasteren Sr. and singer Elise Menagé Challa, and the brother of actress Josephine van Gasteren.
Van Gasteren trained as an electrician. During the Second World War he was convicted to four years for killing a German Jew in hiding. After the war Van Gasteren was pardoned. On the advice of the director Alberto Cavalcanti he became trainee as a sound-effects man at the Eclair Studio's in Épinay-sur-Seine. He worked for the Dutch Polygoon newsreel company in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1949. In 1951 he started his own film production company Spectrum Film. He made his debut with Brown Gold, a film about cocoa and chocolate, in 1952. In 1983 Van Gasteren won the Dutch Film Critics Award for best documentary as well as the Golden Calf for best picture for Hans: Het Leven Voor De Dood (Hans, Life Before Death). He received the Golden Calf a second time in 2003 for his documentary The Price of Survival. Van Gasteren was a visiting professor in the United States at UCLA and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. Van Gasteren lived in Amsterdam and was married to Joke Meerman. At the end of his life he was the oldest active filmmaker in the Netherlands.
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