Floris (film)
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Floris is a 2004 Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

, directed by Jean van de Velde
Jean van de Velde (director)
Jean van de Velde is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. He has directed twelve films since 1979. His film The Silent Army competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...

 and starring Michiel Huisman
Michiel Huisman
Michiel Huisman is a Dutch television and film actor. He stars in the HBO series Treme, as drug addicted musician, Sonny.-Career:...

 as grandson of the original Floris from the 1969 TV series
Floris (TV series)
Floris is a 1969 Dutch television action series, written by Gerard Soeteman starring Rutger Hauer and Jos Bergman and directed by Paul Verhoeven.-Concept:...

. The new side-kick is "Pi", played by popstar Birgit Schuurman
Birgit Schuurman
Birgit Schuurman is a Dutch rock singer and actress.-Biography:Schuurman was born in Utrecht and raised in Bunnik as the daughter of a Dutch father and a Chinese-Surinamese mother; she's the younger sister of Katja Schuurman. Schuurman started her singing career several years before her graduation...

. In the film some of the 1969 footage with Rutger Hauer and Bergman is included. Originally Hauer was asked to play the father of young Floris, but he declined. The film was shot in 2003.
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