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Whitey

7.7 100 mins Comedy   1934
Jan Vanderheyden-Film  
Director(s): Jan Vanderheyden

Release Date: 26 Tue, Jun 1934

The first movie version, from the age of black & white, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referring to a blond male) of the main character: a smart but naughty farmhand's son whose eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father's grumpy employer, a rich farmer) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy's punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe.

Casts of Whitey

Jef Bruyninckx

as De witte

Magda Janssens

as Moeder

Gaston Smet

as Niske

Nora Oosterwijk

as Treske

Nand Buyl

as Makker (I)

Willem Benoy

as Hoofdonderwijzer

Remy Angenot

as Mijnheer Boon

Willem Cauwenberg

as Onderwijzer

Wim De Gruyter

as Makker (II)

Frida Gonissen

as Marieke

Germaine Loosveldt

as Vrouw van Mulder

Jozef Sterkens

as Tenor

Betty Van Roey

as Marie-Louise

Ida Wasserman

as Lieske

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