30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
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Section: World Childrens Film Panorama

Charlie Cooper - the Egg Mystery (2021) 8

Netherlands | 2021 | 80 min.

Charlie Cooper, a fierce girl with a lively imagination, is the youngest of the mysterious Cooper family – all sailors by trade. The Cooper adventures are so outrageous that nobody believes they truly happened. When the city falls under the spell of a strange egg, Charlie is convinced it is a special egg that will only hatch on a hidden island and decides to make the hair-raising journey to the island herself.

CountryNetherlands
Year2021
Duration80 min
Rating8
LanguageDutch
SubtitleEnglish, Simultanneous transla
Directed by Mans van den Berg
Screenplay Mans van den Berg, Derk van den Berg
Director of Photography Bas Baakman, Erik van den Brink
Music Andres Vasco
Edited by Ruben Verweij
Contact Incredible Film

Biography

Director and screenwriter from the Netherlands. He co-directed short drama Who Am I (2015) and shot later the feature-length family films Icelandic Operations (De IJslandbende, 2018) and The Egg Mystery (Berend Botje, 2021), and the TV series Koos (2019).

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