Schneider vs. Bax

Crime/Comedy, Netherlands 2015

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Schneider is about to celebrate his birthday, lovingly arranged by his lovely wife and two small daughters, when work mercilessly calls. As a professional hitman, this means for Schneider: to complete the murderous shift duty punctually until the dinner party. The designated victim, the writer Bax, is supposedly a very easy number. For as bourgeois as things are at Schneider's, Bax, who does coke by conviction, is just as crazy and haphazard. While Schneider prepares the crime with a great love of order, directs false moustaches and perpetrator vehicles, Bax's idyllic summer cottage in the nature reserve is in a state of great disorder: his depressive daughter comes to visit and brings her belligerence with her. Only a phone call reminds him that he still has something to do today: the professional killer Schneider namely, who moves with swift steps into shooting range. Everything is planned, but nothing will work in this black gangster comedy that leaves no genre building block unturned. Alex van Warmerdam's latest directorial stroke is full of laconic and thieving pleasure in absurd intricacies.
97 min
HD
FSK 16
Audio language:
DutchGerman
Subtitles:
German

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Editor:

Job ter Burg

Cast:

Tom Dewispelaere (Schneider)

Alex van Warmerdam (Ramon Bax)

Maria Kraakman (Francisca)

Gène Bervoets (Mertens)

Annet Malherbe (Gina)

Pierre Bokma (Bolek)

Henri Garcin (Gerard)

Loes Haverkort (Lucy)

Eva van de Wijdeven (Nadine)

Misc:

Geert Paredis (Scene design)

Original title:

Schneider vs. Bax

Original language:

Dutch

Format:

16:9 HD, Color

Age rating:

FSK 16

Audio language:

DutchGerman

Subtitles:

German