WAITER
synopsis
A crummy job at a run-down restaurant. A wife who is chronically ill. The anti-social neighbours. An extramarital affair that offers little more than sexual gratification. Fictitious fifty-year-old waiter Edgar has had enough of his miserable existence… He wants out of the relationship with his wife, he wants a new girlfriend, he wants new neighbours and he is fed up with being treated like a doormat by his customers. But Edgar’s about to find out the hard way that his life is truly stranger than fiction.
international title: | Waiter |
original title: | Ober |
country: | Netherlands, Belgium |
sales agent: | Fortissimo Films |
year: | 2006 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Alex Van Warmerdam |
film run: | 97' |
release date: | NL 28/09/2006, BE 28/02/2007 |
screenplay: | Alex Van Warmerdam |
cast: | Alex Van Warmerdam, Ariane Schluter, Mark Rietman, Thekla Reuten, Jaap Spijkers, Pierre Bokma, Line van Wambeke |
cinematography by: | Tom Erisman |
film editing: | Ewin Ryckaert |
art director: | Gert Brinkers |
costumes designer: | Patricia Lim |
music: | Vincent van Warmerdam |
producer: | Marc Van Warmerdam, Vincent Tavier, Guillaume Malandrin, Philippe Kauffmann |
production: | Graniet Film, La Parti Production |
backing: | Nederlands Fonds voor de Film, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds VARA, CoBofonds, Stimuleringsfonds, Eurimages, Citroën Nederland, Pieter Smit, Orkater |
distributor: | A-Film Distribution, Bac Films (FR) |