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Little Crumb

63% | Dec 22, 1999 | Drama

The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb. His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien filled with shame was forced to turn him over to Mrs. Koster soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before shell feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways. Sometimes he has to run off from the police and he has earned the enmity of the most grownups around him.

Featured Crew

Maria Peters
Scenario Writer
Rob Blomkwist
First Assistant Director

Cast

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Ruud Feltkamp
Kruimeltje
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Hugo Haenen
Wilkes
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Rick Engelkes
Harry Volker
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Jack Wouterse
Bezoeker Vrouw Koster

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