Rooie Sien is a 1975

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 directed by Frans Weisz

Frans Weisz

Frans Weisz is a Dutch film director. He has directed 22 films since 1964. His film Havinck was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1988 Cannes Film Festival...

, produced by Rob du Mée. The story is based on the play with the same name, created by Marius Spree at the start of the 20th century. Beppie Nooij jr. played the role of Rooie Sien ("Red Sien") almost 1500 times on the stage. In the movie Willeke Alberti

Willeke Alberti

Willeke Alberti is a Dutch singer and actress, the daughter of entertainer and singer Willy Alberti.-Biography:...

 plays the role of the young Sien, while Nooij moved on the role of Sien's mother.

Plot

Rooie Sien starts in 1912, when Rooie Sien is murdered by her husband Ko Breman, because she doesn't want to follow him to Rotterdam. Sien works as a prostitute in Amsterdam, where she works in café De Kikker, with a pimp called Mooie Frans. Sien sings, entertains customers, and in some cases follows them to bed. Her daughter, Sientje, is raised in Rotterdam by her grandparents, the father and mother of Ko.

1923. Sientje is almost an adult and has an adventurous temperament. The son of her neighbour, Gerrit van Buren, has a crush on Sientje, but she craves more excitement. She meets the artist Jan Meiren and is fascinated by his art and smooth manners, and decided to have him teach her to sing and dance, and to perform together. She ends up in the etablissement of Belze Marie where she quickly becomes a celebrated star. Jan en Sien keep performing in Belze's café, but their relation doesn't improve, especially when Sientje gets pregnant. Sientje's father, Ko, visits them in the café, who sees a lot of similarities between Sientje and her mother; he predicts she will end up in the gutter, but Sientje doesn't listen.

1932. Belze Marie and her husband have a smooth-running cabaret in Den Haag, and Jan Sien follow them there. But there relation is struggling. Jan is showing an interest in the blond dancer Angelique, and when these two start a relation, Sientje flees from the café. At New Year's Eve 1933 Sientje and Jan break up for good. Sientje's father shows up, and she follows him back to Rotterdam to take care of her grandparents.

Cast

• Sien Breman – Beppie Nooij jr
• Sien junior – Willeke Alberti
  Willeke Alberti
  Willeke Alberti is a Dutch singer and actress, the daughter of entertainer and singer Willy Alberti.-Biography:...
  
  
• Oma Breman – Myra Ward
• Opa Breman – Wim van den Brink
• Mooie Frans – Cor van Rijn
• Keesbaas, client of Sien sr. – Wim Kouwenhoven
• Ko Breman, Sien's father – Kees Brusse
  Kees Brusse
  Kees Brusse is a Dutch actor and film director. He has appeared in 47 films and television shows since 1936. He starred in the 1975 film Dokter Pulder zaait papavers, which was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival....
  
  
• Van Buren,- Sacco van der Made
• Gerrit van Buren (until 11 years old) – Alf van Beem
• Gerrit – Peter Faber
• Jan Meier – Jules Hamel
• Tootje de Vries – Mimi Kok
• Tonio – Gerard Thoolen
• Belze Marie – Rosy Parrish
• Accordeonist Belze Marie – John Woodhouse
• Angelique – Geert de Jong
• Baron – Guus Oster
• Tiny Tino – Toby Rix