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55 Socks
20118 min 37 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Co Hoedeman
Production: René ChénierLaurie Gordon (MusiVision)Peter Lindhout (Coconino)Julie Roy (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Co Hoedeman
Prduced by MusiVision and Coconino in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, with the financial support of the Netherlands Film Fund, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec, Crédit d'impôt cinéma et télévision - Gestion SODEC, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and Bravo!FACT.
Based on a poem by Marie Jacobs, the animated short 55 socks,
by Oscar-winning director Co Hoedeman, pays tribute to the
ingenuity of the Dutch people during a dark period of their history – the winter
of hunger in 1944-45. It's the closing months of the war in occupied
Holland and some women unravel a beautiful bedspread in order to knit 55 socks
to barter for food. Reaching back into his childhood memories, Hoedeman has
made a simple, poetic film of rare beauty.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Animation based on Literature
- Foreign Countries > Belgium and the NetherlandsPost-war Period
- Food and Food Industries > World War II
- War, Conflict and Peace > World War II
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Family Diversity and Challenges
- History > World War II
Credits
- script
- Co Hoedeman
- design
- Co Hoedeman
- animation
- Co Hoedeman
- direction
- Co Hoedeman
- picture editing
- Co Hoedeman
- Pierre Plouffe
- music
- Chiwawa
- musician
- Laurie Gordon
- Cameron Wallis
- sound design
- Mark Glynne
- voice
- Brady Moffatt
- Jacqueline Van De Geer
- artistic consultant
- Joyce Ryckman
- introductory text
- Ad Van Liempt
- Joyce Ryckman
- casting
- Kathleen Fee
- voice director
- Kathleen Fee
- music recording
- Krassy Halatchev
- voice recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- voice editing
- Chris Leon
- foley
- Pepijn Aben
- re-recording
- Mark Glynne
- digital imaging specialist
- Pierre Plouffe
- Susan Gourley
- titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- technical coordination
- Julie Laperrière
- marketing manager
- Christine Noël
- administration
- Diane Régimbald
- administrative team
- Diane Ayotte
- Karine Desmeules
- Michèle Labelle
- line production
- Francine Langdeau
- executive producer
- René Chénier
- producer
- Laurie Gordon
- Peter Lindhout
- Julie Roy
Awards
- Platinum Goats AwardALE KINO / International Festival of Films for Children