Bride Flight

• Waldemar Torenstra: Frank
• Anna Drijver: Esther
• Karina Smulders: Ada
• Elise Schaap: Marjorie
• Micha Hulshof: Derk
• Rutger Hauer: Frank as an older man
• Pleuni Touw: Ada as older woman
• Willeke van Ammelrooy: Esther as older woman
• Petra Laseur: Marjorie as older woman

Bride Flight is a Dutch film drama from 2008 directed by Ben Sombogaart. The film was a big success in the Netherlands.

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The film is about Dutch immigrants after the Second World War in New Zealand. Ada, Esther, Marjorie and Frank meet in 1953 on the KLM flight to New Zealand. Ada and Frank fall in love on the Flight into each other, the pregnant Ada married but then the father of her child Derk, which it is followed by New Zealand. He belongs to an orthodox Reformed church and Ada is initially shocked about the difficult initial conditions. The vivacious Marjorie also married in New Zealand, but no children can get after a miscarriage more. The glamorous Esther, who has lost as a Jew their relatives in World War II and is the only survivor of remorse, having a child after an affair with Frank, but there is more to Marjorie and instead pursuing a career in the fashion industry. They agreed to keep on the actual maternity Esther silence. Frank founded a winery. He remains in contact by letter with Ada and both meet again. Ada, who is asked by the orthodox church, cancel their relationship, can not decide to start a new life with Frank because of their children. Marjorie returns with her ​​husband and child in the Netherlands, because they feared an approximation of her son Bobby to his mother Esther, who had got remorse for the abandonment of their mother role. The film ends with the funeral of Frank, at the meet again, the aged protagonist. In the opening scene to the film was to see how Frank on a ride on his estate suffered a heart attack at the wheel of his car. Esther recognizes facilitated on the funeral that Bobby has married a Jewish woman and her granddaughter is Jewish.

Others

Screenwriter Marieke van der Pool wrote 2007 the novel Bruidsvlucht on which the film is based.

The film was after nearly 28- year break, the first Dutch movie in which Rutger Hauer appeared again.

The film was released in English in the U.S. in theaters ( 2011).