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The Mantle of Love (1978) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1978 · 121 mins · Dutch
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- Directed by
- Adriaan Ditvoorst
- Starring
- Siem Vroom, Rijk de Gooyer, Hans Croiset, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Wim van der Grijn, Hans Cornelissen
The film is a wildly surreal, over‑the‑top satire that skewers the Catholic Church, the commercial film industry, and the conventions of 1970s petit‑bourgeois Dutch society with biting humor and absurd set‑pieces, delivering a flamboyant critique that is both shocking and laugh‑inducing.
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