Bert Haanstra (31 May1916 - 23 October1997) was a Dutchfilm and documentarydirector and Academy Award winner. May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... A documentary is a work in a visual or auditory medium presenting political, scientific, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. ... Generally a director is a person or one of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a government agency, company, corporation, group or project. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
Haanstra was born in the town of Holten and became a professional filmmaker in 1947. In 1958 his documentary Glas about the production of glass won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. He also directed several films like Fanfare, Alleman and Zoo. In total Haanstra received 78 awards. He died in the town of Hilversum. Rijssen-Holten is a municipality in the eastern Netherlands, the result of a merger in 2001, but until 2003 just called Rijssen. ... This is a list of films that have received an Oscar and nomination for best documentary short subject. ... is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. ...
Like many film-makers of his generation, BertHaanstra (1916-1997) was a self-taught man. He started as a photographer in Amsterdam and during the Second World War, he used his talent to help the Resistance.
Haanstra, who was himself born in the East of Netherlands, in a higher area with more forests, observed his compatriots who live with their feet in water, in slightly similar way as when one observes animals “in a zoo”.
Haanstra will notably leave a lasting impression thanks to his films, which are more than testimonies of past times ; they express his love towards his fellow men, which Peter van Bueren translated using this beautiful phrase : Haanstra is a “noble-hearted cinema observer”.
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