Rusty 2 Rintje 2
Het Klokhuis over dood en afscheid
This animation series brings Rusty the dog from Sieb Posthuma’s popular children’s books to life. The fearless, sweet fox terrier discovers the world with his ears up and his nose in the air. What is the first day of school like? And celebrating your birthday? Or having to see the doctor? Rusty experiences all sorts of things during this second season. For instance, a sawing someone in half act ends in an unexpected manner, he becomes homesick whilst staying over at grandma’s and camps in the garden with his friends Tobias and Henriette.
When someone dies it isn’t just really sad, but an awful lot of things then need to be arranged in a short period of time. Children have a lot of questions about this. In this four-part series by the long-running, informative children’s programme, presenter Eva goes in search of answers. She talks to both experts and children with experience.
Rusty centres on friendship and the ties between the title character and his mother and grandmother. The second season of this stop-motion animation series also consists of 26 short episodes. The principal voices are provided by Dutch actors Georgina Verbaan, Nasrdin Dchar and Guy Clemens.
BEN TESSEUR, STEVEN DE BEUL BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS | 2021 | 5’ | 3+ FACTS
During the first episode, Eva visits a mortuary and children talk about their experiences with dead bodies. Attention is also paid to what death means in, for instance, Surinamese and Islamic culture. The second and third episodes are about saying goodbye. For example, an expert explains how important saying goodbye is to the grieving process as well as how a body is presented for viewing, is buried, and cremated. The last episode is about grieving. How does that feel and how do you deal with it?
JAN PIETER SCHAAP THE NETHERLANDS | 2021 | 16’ | 8+ FACTS
Dutch title Rintje 2 Producer Leontine Petit, Tom van
Dutch title Het Klokhuis over dood en afscheid Producer
Blommestein, Dries Phlypo, Karlijn Van de Cruys, Bruno Wyndaele
Stephanie de Beer Screenwriter Jan Pieter Schaap, Jurrian van
Screenwriter Fabie Hulsebos, Fiona van Heemstra Composer
Dongen, Isabelle van der Ende, Niek Barendsen, Martijn Hillenius,
Chrisnanne Wiegel, Jelle Verstraten Leading actors Georgina
Ilse Warringa Editor Rob Ruis Composer Jurrian van Dongen Leading
Verbaan, Guy Clemens, Sarah Bannier, Nasrdin Dchar, Jacqueline
actors Eva Cleven Production company NTR, The Netherlands,
Blom, Clairy Polak Production company Lemming Film, The
info@ntr.nl, www.ntr.nl Broadcaster NTR
Netherlands, info@lemmingfilm.com, www.lemmingfilm.com, Mockingbird Productions, Belgium, info@mockingbird.tv, www.mockingbird.tv Sales company Beta Film GmbH, Germany, beta@betafilm.com, www.betafilm.com Broadcaster AVROTROS
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