Cloaca (film)
Cloaca is a Dutch film made in 2003 by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, from the stage piece of the same name that Maria Goos wrote in 2002 for the theater. Goos wrote also the scenario for the film. The head roles celebrate men in their 40's who were formerly student friends but since then have it let their relationship go stale. They are played by: Goos's husband
Peter Blok (Tom), Pierre Bokma (Pieter), Gijs Scholten van Aschat (Joep), and Jaap Spijkers (Maarten). Female roles were played by Caro Lenssen (Laura), Elsie de Brauw (Conny), and Marleen Stolz (Russian prostitute). Eric Schneider acted a by-role as Brest, Pieter's boss's boss.
Blok, Bokma, Goos, Scholten van Aschat, and Van de Sande Bakhuyzen knew each other from the Toneelacademie Maastricht.
Plot
Template:Spoiler The film has been taken as telefilm, and has been co-financed by the AVRO. It won at a festival in 2003, the public prize for Dutch film, and in 2005,was brought out on DVD.
The homosexual art historian Pieter is already 20 years in a back street used for holiday lettings and is still an archivist at a municipality. He is ignored by his colleagues, and as revenge after many years on his birthday has selected a painting from the depot in the cellar where art has been stored which was bought within the framework of the law forbidding performances. Brest, his boss's boss, takes Vermeulen out for a meal. Pieter thinks that something new will be announced, but in place of it he gets that to hear he must return the paintings: in any case the eight paintings by Van Goppel (who died recently) which all of a sudden have bnecone worth much money. This produces a large problem, because Pieter has sold four Van Goppels to be able to pay for his apartment. If rescuers in need are to appear, they wouid be his old student friends Joep and Tom. Joep, a (streberige) politician who is reckoned in the corremt cabinet format to become Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been turned out op his house by his wife Conny because he proevd to have an extramarital affair with Jennie. He thought to be able to stay at Tom's, but those month's trial residence have been turning rather final as a result of cocaine abuse. Tom as a lawyer wanted the matter of Pieter gladly to take in himself ("that my first matter then will be for the clinic."). Joep cannot have the painting question at the time, because he stands on the point of being appointed. (A homo, OK. But a darkening homo, who cannot really!) The rancid Maarten comes also; he sits flat for the première of his pompous stage piece "The Wheel of Ixion" in which Joep's almost 18-year-old daughter is to play Laura, a role where she stands naked on the stage. ("sometimes there someone runs substantive sometimes in its naked reet, yes.") Joep is with him there ("a dress, she must wear a dress!") and knew not that Maarten had sex with Laura. The friends celebrate Joep's anniversary by renting a prostitute for him, but that leads to cries by Joep and a brawl with those who also wanted to use her services. The friends go to the première of Maarten's piece. Joep's lets his mistrust concerning how his daughter will act disappear. He gets a chance afterwards of making it well with his woman, but bungled it totally. Tom here became crazy and went to the city to score cocaine. Meanwhile Pieter ran round his colleagues with a complete (huilebalkerig) declaring wrongly that he had been given a Van Goppels. If the friends return to Pieter they look back on their past. ("I have becoem a nasty man?") Exactly the moment everything seems to end up well for Pieter, Joep draws his hands from the complete matter because he became State Secretary of Culture. ("I have here never been." "Good-day Tom, this was it then.") Tom breaks down now entirely and ran away. Maarten, who still has not confessed to Joep what he did with his daughter, continues to wait until Pieter comes home and tells him the bad news. Pieter cuts one of his arteries open in the bathroom. ("Van Goppel did not know when something was. I, however, know.)
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