Death in The Shadows
– A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is o..
A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident in the street they live in.
07 Feb 1985
Dutch
Vivian Pieters
Vivian Pieters, Ton Ruys, Catherine Aird (novel)
Maayke Bouten, Erik de Vries, Johan Leysen, Marlous Fluitsma
18-year old Valerie and her mother Trudy live together in rural Oostdijk, a quiet little village near Amsterdam. When Trudy comes home one night, she gets run over by a car. Dead. The autopsy reveals she has never bore a child. Soon after more strange facts are beginning to turn up. While police inspector Mellema hunts down the car driver, Valerie starts searching for her real parents, both leading to the same sad truth.
1 win & 2 nominations.