De Greep

De Greep
De Greep
	Publicity photo of De Greep showing Louis Bouwmeester as Jean-Marie Hardouin.
Directed by	Leon Boedels
Produced by	Franz Anton Nöggerath jr.
Starring	Louis Bouwmeester; Ko van Sprinkhuysen
Distributed by	Filmfabriek F.A. Nöggerath
Release date	1909;
Running time	8 minutes
Country	Netherlands
Language	Silent

De Greep (English: The Grip) is a Dutch silent film from 1909, with a running time of eight minutes which was directed by Leon Boedels.^[1] De Greep was produced by Filmfabriek F.A. Nöggerath and is based on the French play La Griffe by Jean Sartène.

Plot edit

Jean-Marie Hardouin (played by Louis Bouwmeester) is an old man who once was notorious because of the iron grip he exerted on his family but now he is lame. He whiles away his days in a chair in the house of his son and daughter-in-law. He has to see how his adulterous daughter-in-law plots to murder her two foster children and her husband. Jean-Marie can't intervene and because he can't talk he can't warn his own family. Eventually he gathers all his strengths and strangles her.

Sources edit

(in Dutch) Algemeen Handelsblad, 4 August 1909
(in Dutch) F. van der Maden, Mobiele filmvertoning in Nederland 1895–1913, Nijmegen (1981), p. 295
(in Dutch) Nijmeegsche Courant, 5 October 1909
(in Dutch) H. de Wit, Film in Utrecht van 1895 tot 1915, Utrecht (1986); Annex: p. 133
(in Dutch) De Kinematograaf, No. 102, 1 January 1915
(in Dutch) De Kinematograaf, No. 105, 22 January 1915
(in Dutch) De Kinematograaf, No. 121, 14 May 1915
G. Donaldson, Of Joy and Sorrow. A Filmography of Dutch Silent Fiction, Amsterdam (1997), p. 75