Hans, Life Before Death
Hans: het leven voor de dood
- Documentary
- 1983
Filmmaker Louis van Gasteren reconstructs the life of Amsterdam poet, composer and actor Hans van Sweeden, who took his own life at the age of twenty-four in 1963. Through interviews with friends, relatives and contemporaries, alongside archival material, the film becomes both an intimate portrait of Van Sweeden and a broader account of a young generation searching for freedom, identity and new ways of living in Amsterdam during the 1950s and 1960s.
Hans, Life Before Death is a movie first shown in 1983. Runtime is 155 minutes. Status: Released. Genres: Documentary. TMDB score 6.8/10 from 6 votes.































