The Misfortunates

As a teenager, Gunther grew up in a household with a father, grandmother and three uncles, all of whom were addicted to alcohol and not averse to physical altercations. All indications are that Gunther will meet the same fate. Or does he still have a chance to escape the Stobbes' misfortune? Felix van Groeningen has "found a haunting tone, situated between the alcohol-soaked realism of Charles Bukowski, the loser poetry of Aki Kaurismäki, and the crude, anarchic humor of the Dutch chav comedy Flodder. (...) Van Groeningen shows his protagonists unadorned - without exhibiting them." (Spiegel)

Keywords

  • Award Winning
  • childhood
  • drugs
  • literature
  • Malte Wirtz
  • parenthood
  • Screen: Benelux
  • youth

Actors

  • Kenneth Vanbaeden
  • Valentijn Dhaenens
  • Koen De Graeve
  • Bert Haelvoet
  • Natali Broods

Director

  • Felix van Groeningen

Drama, Comedy

1h 49min

12 FSK

NL

DE

Belgium
Netherlands
2008
As a teenager, Gunther grew up in a household with a father, grandmother and three uncles, all of whom were addicted to alcohol and not averse to physical altercations.

As a teenager, Gunther grew up in a household with a father, grandmother and three uncles, all of whom were addicted to alcohol and not averse to physical altercations.


All indications are that Gunther will meet the same fate. Or does he still have a chance to escape the Stobbes' misfortune?


Felix van Groeningen has "found a haunting tone, situated between the alcohol-soaked realism of Charles Bukowski, the loser poetry of Aki Kaurismäki, and the crude, anarchic humor of the Dutch chav comedy Flodder. (...) Van Groeningen shows his protagonists unadorned - without exhibiting them." (Spiegel)

Award
De Ensors

Festivals

Cast & Crew