- Awards: Best European TV Documentary of the Year @Prix Europa, Berlin | FOREIGN DOCUMENTARY FILM SPECIAL MENTION @ Rome Independent Film Festival
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Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over 40 years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. Now they bid their farewells. A portrait of these remarkable women, as well as a history of the Red Light District in Amsterdam over the past fifty years.
Meet The Fokkens
premiere location: IDFA 2011
credits
- director(s): Gabriëlle Provaas, Rob Schröder
- cinematographer(s): Wiro Felix, Rob Schröder
- editor(s): Sander Vos
- producer(s): Bruno Felix & Femke Wolting
- production company: Submarine
- composer: Danny Malando
technical data
- film format: HD
- audio format: Stereo
- aspect ratio: 16/9
- production year: 2011
- runtime: 55', 70'
- countries: NETHERLANDS
- genres: human interest, sex
- languages: Dutch
- subtitles: English
reviews
"A racy, thoroughly enjoyable docu about a pair of 69-year-old identical-twin hookers in Amsterdam ...
... raunchy, hilariously uninhibited docu should wow arthouse auds." Variety
Festivals
- Athens International Film Festival
- Bergen International Film Festival
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Cambridge Film Festival
- Haifa International Film Festival
- Helsinki International Film Festival
- Hot Docs
- IDFA
- Krakow Film Festival
- Reykjavik International Film Festival
- Transilvania International Film Festival
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