Een koninkrijk voor een huis!

Director: Jaap Speyer | Production Country: Netherlands | Year: 1949 | Production Company: Monopole Film (Rotterdam/Amsterdam) | FLM36218 | Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam) - filmdatabase.e...
Comedy about the post-war housing shortage.
Een koninkrijk voor een huis is based on the Amsterdam city councils decision to requisition rooms to house homeless people. Heintje Blom, a simple working woman, is told to move into a villa in a posh part of town. The inhabitants are none too pleased about this but in spite of the class division, a romance blossoms between the rich family's son and Heintje's daughter. The two families warm to each other in the end and the happy pair is united in wedded bliss.
Director Jaap Speyer's Een koninkrijk voor een huis marked the return of the feature length Dutch film to the cinemas. Speyer, who had made several comedies before the war, including De Jantjes (The sailor lads), wasted no time in picking up where he had left off. If it weren't for the film's subject of post-war housing misery, the terrible events of the last six years might as well not have happened. The film is full of the same old jokes and japes as the pre-war Jordaan films.
The public came in their droves but contrary to De Jantjes, Een koninkrijk voor een huis didn't herald a new dawn for Dutch cinema. It would be another ten years before the Dutch film would come into its own again.
Cast: Henriëtte Davids, Annie van Duyn, Ludzer Eringa, Nelly Ernst, Matthieu van Eysden, Alex Faassen, Chris Baay, Johan Kaart jr, Tiny Lavell, George Beekhoven, Marie Nagel, Frans Nienhuys, Tilly Bouwmeester, Frans van Schaik, Jan Blok, Carl Tobi, Jo Uges, Clara Vischer - Blaaser, Rob de Vries, Rudi West.
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