The Debut (Het Debuut)

Teenager Carolien Sanders (Marina de Graff) had always been fond of her parents’ unhappily married friend Hugo (Gerard Cox). As that fondness grew into a relationship and physical affair, their life experience gap and the tensions of maintaining secrecy would guarantee an ill-fated conclusion. Controversial early effort from director Nouchka van Brakel, adapted from the Hester Albach novella, co-stars Pleuni Touw, Kitty Courbois, Dolf de Vries. 94 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Dutch; Subtitles: English; newsreel footage; image gallery; theatrical trailers. In Dutch with English subtitles.