Bert Haanstra

Bert Haanstra was born on 31 May 1916 in Espelo, near Holten, the son of a schoolteacher, and grew up in Goor. A self-taught filmmaker, he worked at the end of the forties at the Denham studios in England, then for the Shell film unit, and trained in contact with the British documentary school. One of his documentary short films earned the country its first Oscar; in 1996 he was the first winner of the prize that bears his name. He died in Hilversum on 23 October 1997, aged eighty-one.

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• Feature filmFanfareBert Haanstra · 1958Cinema