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Little Crumb

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Original title

Kruimeltje (Little Crumb)

Year

1999

Running time

119 min.

Country

Netherlands

Director

Maria Peters

Screenwriter

Maria Peters. Novel: Chris van Abkoude

Cast

Music

Jochen Fluitsma, Eric van Tijn, Henny Vrienten

Cinematography

Hein Groot

Producer

Movida/Trix, Shooting Star Filmcompany BV

Genre

Drama | Family Relationships

Synopsis

The film is based on the popular Dutch children’s book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as “Little Crumb” (Ruud Feltkamp). His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien (Thekla Reuten) filled with shame was forced to turn him over to Mrs. Koster (Sacha Bulthuis) soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before she’ll feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways.

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Little Crumb

1999

Maria Peters