For all Frits, a farmer's son, knows, his mother died when giving birth to him. He and his father make up a strong team. In the literal and figurative sense, because his father not only teaches him to milk the cows and hunt, he is also the coach of his soccer team. The happy tide turns when the boy turns eighteen and is scouted as a promising soccer talent. Suddenly, Frits's future is no longer with his father on the farm, but on the green grass of the Nijmegen soccer club NEC. His son's splendid soccer career may be the crowning glory of the farmer's hard work, but he is afraid he will also lose his only child. Desperate, he reveals the lie with which he raised his son. Frits is bewildered and makes a dramatic decision.
Directed by Kees Vlaanderen
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Cast
Johnny de Mol
Frits Jr.
Dimme Treurniet
Frits Sr.
Nienke Römer
Marianne
Celia Nufaar
Moeder Frits
Helmert Woudenberg
Vader Frits
Micha Hulshof
Paul
Titus Muizelaar
van Marlo
Angelique de Bruijne
Kapster
Els Ingeborg Smits
Advocaat
René van Asten
van Raalte
Hein van der Heijden
Officier van Justitie
Martijn Fischer
Journalist
Michiel Varga
Bewaker
Juul Vrijdag
Verpleegster
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