This movie won The Academy Award for Best Foreign Film for 1997. It was rated 92% by the Critics and 88% by the regular viewers. In my opinion it was a terrible story of people not communicating with each other, living extremely unhappy lives which end in tragedies.
I saw no redeeming value to this dark, brooding and painful film. You have to be crazy to rent it from Netfix.
From Wikipedia: In the Netherlands of the 1920s, Dreverhaven (Decleir), a dreaded bailiff, is found dead, with a knife sticking out of his stomach. The obvious suspect is Jacob Willem Katadreuffe (van Huêt), an ambitious young lawyer who worked his way up from poverty, always managing to overcome Dreverhaven's personal attacks against him.
Katadreuffe was seen leaving Dreverhaven's office on the afternoon of the murder. He is arrested and taken to police headquarters, where he reflects back on the story of his long relationship with Dreverhaven, who, police learn, is also Katadreuffe's father. The complicated relationship between Katadreuffe and Dreverhaven lies at the center of this film. Unrequited love and blind ambition are among the other themes in this film, as is the difficulty of some characters to express emotions fully and the repercussions that ensue.
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