Abel

Name: Abel
Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Released: 1986
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Olga Zuiderhoek, Annet Malherbe, Loes Luca

1986 · 100 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 2,644 VOTES · DIR. Alex van Warmerdam

Overview

An extremely weird comedy revolving around the life of 31- year-old Abel, who has never left home (literally). After failing with doctors and psychiatrists, Abel's father Victor brings home Christine, a friend, in an attempt to teach Abel basic social skills. But Victor's wife Duif accuses him of having an affair, and in the ensuing row Abel is thrown out into the street. But help is at hand when he runs into kind-hearted stripper Zus - whose show Victor is obsessed with…

Dialogue Timeline — 646 lines

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00:03:02 Put those things away. - Why?

00:04:35 Stop it.

00:06:12 You're ganging up together, I knew it, against me.

00:09:17 And a mosquito-net and a sextant.

00:11:35 And around the age of fourteen eczema in his armpits.

00:13:25 Because Maggie is feeling so uncomfortable...

00:17:10 No hors-d'oeuvre? - Didn't get round to it today.

00:19:02 I don't understand de Beer.

00:22:08 Yes but, there is silver present.

00:25:20 Why not Fred, or Harry.

00:28:12 ...a bit severely actually...

00:29:55 Christine, yes, that I have studied.

00:33:04 She doesn't come from a working-class family...

00:34:29 This evening, if I touch my nose like this...

00:38:42 Can you play things as well as people?

00:44:44 ...the story about the llama now? - What are you talking about?

00:49:11 You could be something else.

01:00:18 What would he be doing in a lunchroom?

01:06:14 I wanted to surprise you. Who have you got indoors?

01:09:33 But you could walk over to that girl? - I can't.

01:13:10 I saw a woman in the fishmongers wearing Abel's pullover.

01:18:12 You always used to have such damp, warm hands.

01:29:46 With a beautiful, young, fertile woman.

01:34:00 I thought it was a very pleasant evening. Next time, our place?

Cast & Characters

Alex van Warmerdam Abel Henri Garcin Victor Olga Zuiderhoek Duif Annet Malherbe Zus Loes Luca Christine Arend Jan Heerma van Voss Psychiatrist Anton Kothuis Magnetic Healer Peer Mascini Director Elmar Schiphorst Waitress Marc van Warmerdam Fishmonger

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed646

Dialogue density6.5 lines / min

First line00:03:02

Final line01:34:00

Production Record

DirectorAlex van Warmerdam

LanguageDutch

IMDb votes2,644