SIMON 

Original Title

Simon

Director

Eddy Terstall

Genre

Comedy/Drama

Country of origin

Netherlands

Language spoken

Dutch

Year of production

2004

Box Office

Opening Weekend
€63,300 (Netherlands) (3 October 2004) (18 Screens)

Production

Spaghetti Film

Domestic Distribution/World Sales

A-Film Distribution /Fortissimo Films

Domestic Release

22 September 2004 (Nederlands Film Festival)
30 September 2004

Official Website

www.simondefilm.nl/

Awards

Nederlands Film Festival
year: 2004
result: won
award: Audience Award
category/recipient: Eddy Terstall
award: Golden Calf
category/recipient:
Best Actor Cees Geel
Best Director Eddy Terstall
Best Film Imko Nieuwenhuijs
award: Youth Award
category/recipient: Eddy Terstall
result: nominated
award: Golden Calf
category/recipient:
Best Actress Rifka Lodeizen
Best Editing Ben Isaacs
Best Screenplay of a Feature Film Eddy Terstall

 

List of European Distributors

Release Date

Countries

Distributor

13 May 2005

France (Cannes Film Market)

 

 

Synopsis

A totally funny yet heartbreaking story about the lifetime friendship between two very different men; Simon, an utterly straight and macho guy and Camiel, a hopelessly shy and gay man, who are drawn together by a series of adventures and tragedies of life.