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Het Woeden der Gehele Wereld (The fury/rage/raging of the whole world) is a 1993 Dutch novel by Maarten 't Hart.

It is also a Dutch 2006 film, based on the novel, directed by Guido Pieters, and produced by Rob Houwer.

Film plot

The film is set in Maassluis and Leiden, in the time of the German occupation (see The Netherlands in World War II) in the 1940s, and in the 1950s. It is about the coming of age of Alex Goudveyl (Maarten Heijmans), and about a murder.

For profit, in May 1940 Joost Vroom takes refugees (mainly Jews) on his boat to escape to England. However, the boat is attacked by the Germans. They survive, but the escape fails and the boat and the money is lost.

The Goudveyl couple has a business of second-hand goods, and profits from the persecution of Jews by cheaply bying goods of Jews who have to flee the country.

Vroom becomes police officer, first under the German occupation. He betrays Jews for profit, to recover his loss on the boat. After the war he remains police officer.

Alex loves playing piano, and is very talented. Very inconsiderately his father sells the family's piano when he is offered a good price for it, much to Alex's regret. Sometimes Alex can play piano or organ elsewhere.

Vroom is ephebophile and, for example, pays Alex for simulating masturbation with an eel between his legs substituting for his penis, so that Vroom can film it (in the book Vroom pays for seeing and touching boys' penises; the film's variation may have been chosen to allow visualisation, while keeping it decent). Alex has a gay friend William Keenids, who sometimes likes to cross-dress. We see a scene where William is in Vroom's home, with the little film of Alex being projected on a screen, and William willingly starting to undress while Vroom is filming. It is not revealed whether this is for money. In another scene, William tries to have some physical intimacy with Alex, but Alex rejects it, arguing that he is not Vroom.

Aaron Oberstein's wife died in the war. He does not know what happened to his baby son. In 1956 Vroom claims he knows who and where he is and offers to tell it for a large sum of money. Aaron brings the money at the agreed place, the warehouse of the Goudveyls. An evangelisation campaign is going on outside, while Alex plays the piano inside. Vroom is murdered by a gunshot. Alex is witness of the murder, and is afraid he will be killed later because of that.

As a student, Alex has sex with Yvonne, assistent of the professor, in an empty lecture room, at her initiative. At first Alex is willing, but when she wants more he walks away. On a second occasion, when he has Joanna Oberstein as girlfriend, he refuses sex with Yvonne. Now she threatens him with a knife. Then her boss enters the room and Alex can escape. Yvonne is fired.

Alex's parents confess to Alex that in the war they could buy their business cheaply, because the owners were deported Jews. The parents say there is another important thing to tell, but they hesitate and do not tell it yet. Soon after this, Alex's parents die of carbon monoxide poisoning.

It turns out that Alex's parents were not his biological parents. His biological mother died in the war, his biological father is Aaron Oberstein, the father of Alex's girlfriend. Thus Alex's girlfriend is his half-sister.

Aaron did not know that Alex was his son. The Goudveyl couple was childless, and Alex was illegally supplied to them by Vroom for profit. The couple was blackmailed by Vroom regarding this. Therefore Alex's fostermother murdered Vroom. Since she is dead now, the case is closed.

Cast

Alex Goudveyl - Maarten Heijmans
father Goudveyl - Peter Drost
mother Goudveyl - Ottelien Boeschoten
Joost Vroom - Cees Geel
Aaron Oberstein - Bart de Vries
Ruth Oberstein - Viviënne van den Assem
Joanna Oberstein - Anna Speller
Judith Oberstein - Nyncke Beekhuyzen
Arnold Oberstein - Frederik Brom
Yvonne Varekamp - Esther Waij
reverend Meewers - Peer Mascini
Inspector Graswinckel - .
Inspector Douvetrap - Frank Lammers
William Keenids - Bob Radstaak
Elisa Becker
Frederik Braem
Ruben Brinkmann
Reinout Bussemaker
Thomas de Bres
Mirijam De Rooij
Cas Enklaar
Marcel Faber
Hugo Haenen
Ad Hoeymans
René van 't Hof
Rosa Knaup
Frits Lambrechts
Kim Pieters
Tatiana Radier
Miryanna van Reeden
Arthur Roffelsen
Lizelotte van Dijk
Michel Visser

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