BosBros is the producer of the family feature film The Penknife. Six-year-old Mees is faced by a big problem when his friend Tim moves house: Mees still has his penknife. Mees wants to give it back, but doesn’t know his friend’s new address. Mees tries to explain the problem to adults in his vicinity, but they don’t have any time or don’t want to listen. Mees tries all kinds of ingenious tricks to get in touch with Tim. He writes a letter, puts a small ad in the paper and in the end even gets on television.
Year of production 1991 | Age All Ages | Length 90 minutes
Genio de Groot
Adelheid Roosen
Verno Romney
Beppie Melissen
Sarah Sijbing
Sebastiaan Spaan
Maxim Hartman
Karen van Holst Pellekaan
Kees Hulst
SCREENPLAY Sjoerd Kuyper
DISTRIBUTION In The Air
BROADCASTER AVRO
D.O.P. Reinier van Brummelen
EDITOR Herman P. Koerts
MUSIC Karel von Kleist, Roger Verhaart
PRODUCTION DESIGN Michel de Graaf, Wieger de Jong
COSTUME DESIGN Vera de Jong, Maureen Versprille
MAKE UP AND HAAR Mia de Jong
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR Maureen Barkey
GAFFER Pieter Vermeer
SOUND Bert Flantua
STILLS Leonie Ravestein
Kinderkast Award, Cinekid 1992
Best Feature Film – Film Festival Essen 1992
Audience Award – Children’s Film Festival Wenen 1992
Best Feature Film – Children’s Film Festival Tel Aviv 1992
Best Feature Film -Children’s Film Festival Montevideo 1993
2nd Price, Best Feature Film Award – Children’s Film Festival Bellinzona 1993
2nd Price, Best Feature Film & Cifej Award – Children’s Film Festival Udaipur (India) 1993
International Emmy Award, New York 1993
Golden Calf, Best Direction – Dutch Film Festival (NFF) 1993
CIJEF Award en Prix Danube – Bratislava 1993
