Hans, Life Before Death
Hans: het leven voor de dood
Watch hans, life before death Movies2Watch. Filmmaker Louis van Gasteren reconstructs the life of Amsterdam poet, composer and actor Hans van Sweeden, who took his own life at the age of twenty-four in 1963. Through interviews with friends, relatives and contemporaries, alongside archival material, the film becomes both an intimate portrait of Van Sweeden and a broader account of a young generation searching for freedom, identity and new ways of living in Amsterdam during the 1950s and 1960s.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Netherlands
- Director: Louis van Gasteren
- Cast: Jan Cremer, Willem Nijholt, Hans van Sweeden,
