Dense on the Sea
2000 · 85 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 147 VOTES · DIR. Gerrard Verhage
Overview
Constant Wegman (Benja Bruijning), a 14 year old boy, raised by his grandmother (Carry Tefsen) in Zeedijk, Amsterdam. She is the owner of a cafe-hotel “De Rode Laars” (“The Red Boots”). The dreaming Constant runs away from this world of drunkards, gamblers, fighters by writing poems. His grandmother wants him to take control of the cafe. Then Constant secretly subscribes to a national poem writing competition: a new Vondel is born!
Dialogue Timeline — 598 lines
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00:00:08 Red-light Poet
00:04:19 Hey, big boy...
00:06:51 Good luck, mate...
00:11:22 It claws red at the sky...
00:14:09 Listen here...
00:16:27 That's true love.
00:18:15 Lovely, eh? I bought it yesterday.
00:20:13 As long as he doesn't follow his mother.
00:22:39 You don't dare show me?
00:25:28 You should come back some other time.
00:30:03 and a room.
00:33:22 Did you know that Muis sleeps in the room opposite me?
00:38:07 Better than Chubby Checker!
00:46:04 You shouldn't look at those poems by Lichthart.
00:48:38 I don't know. I'm going to the cinema.
00:52:41 Come here, Constant.
00:58:55 What happened?
01:02:17 She just couldn't.
01:09:09 I'll take them with me, unless you want them.
01:11:59 We have a deal, remember? A man, a man... a word, a word.
01:14:06 Go on!
01:16:15 I'm not exaggerating if I say we have a very surprising poet for you.
01:18:17 It's been a neck and neck race, listeners.
01:21:17 Eddie strikes back...
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed598
Dialogue density7.0 lines / min
First line00:00:08
Final line01:21:17
Production Record
DirectorGerrard Verhage
LanguageDutch
IMDb votes147