Katie Tippel
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$0
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$0
Director
Actors
Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Andrea Domburg, Hannah de Leeuwe, Jan Blaaser, Eddie Brugman, Carry Tefsen, Peter Faber, Mart Gevers, Walter Kous
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Gerard Soeteman
Producer
Camera operator
Composer
Rogier van Otterloo
Artist
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Short description
In the late 19th-century, the Tippel family moves to rural Stavoren in search of greener pastures. However, their dreams are quickly shattered, as teenage Katie is terrorized by a male-dominated society who only see her as an object. Her situation worsens when, following her father's sacking and her elder sister's descent into alcoholism, her mother decides that, rather than starving, Katie becomes a prostitute.
What's left behind the scenes
- Director Paul Verhoeven agreed to direct the film after reading only a detailed synopsis, which told the story of the main character alongside a description of the social and political climate in the country during the period depicted. When pre-production was already in full swing, Verhoeven and producer Gerard Soeteman reworked the synopsis into a screenplay, but producer Rob Houwer refused to give it the green light, considering it too expensive. Houwer instructed Verhoeven and Soeteman to focus on the heroine's personal problems and remove almost all social issues from the script, including scenes of rebellion, which were, in fact, the reason Verhoeven had agreed to take on the project.
- Problems during filming arose not only from the script. Cinematographer Jan de Bont and actress Monique van de Ven had met on the set of Verhoeven's drama "Turkish Delight" (1973). De Bont had a very conflicted reaction to filming nude scenes featuring van de Ven, making the atmosphere on the set of "Katie Tipple" quite tense. A local prostitute was even hired to replace van de Ven for the nude scenes, and at one point, Verhoeven's wife Martine, a psychologist by profession, had to be invited to the set to help ease the tension.
- A more accurate translation of the title is "Ketie, the Streetwalker".
- Problems during filming arose not only from the script. Cinematographer Jan de Bont and actress Monique van de Ven had met on the set of Verhoeven's drama *Turkish Delight* (1973). De Bont had a very ambiguous attitude towards filming nude scenes with van de Ven, so the atmosphere on the set of *The Fourth Man* was quite tense. They even hired a local prostitute to film the nude scenes instead of van de Ven, and at one point, Verhoeven's wife, Martine, a psychologist by profession, had to be invited to the set to help defuse the atmosphere.
- The film was shot in The Hague, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Leiden, and Brussels due to the abundance of old buildings there. Even so, during filming, props like a baker's cart or basket weavers had to be placed on the set to hide attributes of the twentieth century from the viewers – antennas, parking meters, supermarkets.
- Director Paul Verhoeven agreed to film this movie after reading only a detailed synopsis, in which the protagonist's story was told alongside a description of the country's social and political climate during the period. When pre-production was already in full swing, Verhoeven and producer Gerard Soeteman reworked the synopsis into a screenplay; however, producer Rob Houver refused to give it the "green light," deeming it too expensive. Houver ordered Verhoeven and Soeteman to focus on the heroine's personal problems and remove almost all social issues from the script, including the riot scenes, which were the very reason Verhoeven had agreed to take on the project.
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