Before the flood
Het verloren land
The documentary begins with spectacular sfx-footage of how water swallows The Netherlands. In Before the flood it is soon clear that fiction is rapidly becoming reality.
Renowned Dutch actor Pierre Bokma coolly plays a man who as a boy was home alone with his baby brother during the flood disaster in Zeeland. The men of the Schieland and Krimpenerwaard polder board anxiously keep an eye on the water levels in the polders and a Dutch scientist explains how he, inspired by the warnings in Revelations, made wind analyses and concluded that in the near future Europe will be facing life-threatening super storms. The saddening scenarios are intercut with poetical and terrifying archive footage that bears witness to the destructive power of the water: from crumbling polar caps to churning floods that wash away everything that lives.
- Director: Jos de Putter
- Producer: Petra Goedings
- Scenario: Jos de Putter
- Camera: Stef Tijdink
- Set Sound: Tom d' Angremond
- Sound design: Alex Booy
- Editor: JP Luijsterburg
- Production companies: Phanta Vision International BV, Dieptescherpte BV
Award:
Eco Award, Istanbul