The Breath of Life

Overview

After a near-fatal accident, filmmaker Guido van der Werve muses about the highs and lows of his own life as he endures a long process of recovery. Instead of a linear narrative, Nummer achttien is structured as a series of movements: it departs from the classical documentary to present us with a series of vignettes that combine past and present, existentialist despair and deadpan humour, reflection and creativity, the joys and pains of remembering and forgetting.

Directed by Guido van der Werve

Top cast

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Guido van der Werve

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Johanna Ketola

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Suze van Oort

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Mats Bakker

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Evan Zeldenrust

Guido Pollemans

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Marguerite de Brauw

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