Dagboek van een Oude Dwaas

Dagboek van een Oude Dwaas
Dagboek van een Oude Dwaas
Directed by	Lili Rademakers
Written by	Claudine Bouvier, Hugo Claus
Produced by	Fons Rademakers, Henry Lange, Pierre Drouot
Cinematography	Paul Van Den Bos
Edited by	Toon De Graaff
Music by	Egisto Macchi
Distributed by	Cannon Tuschinski Film Distribution (Netherlands, 1988)
Release date	1987;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Netherlands
Language	Dutch

Dagboek van een Oude Dwaas is a 1987 Dutch film directed by Lili Rademakers. It is based on a book by the Japanese writer Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. The film's international title is Diary of a Mad Old Man.

The film was selected for the Semaine de la Critique from the Cannes film festival in 1988.

Plot

Hamelinck, an already old man, suffers from a severe muscle disease and must stop working. It bothers him not long, because he gets under the spell of his daughter-in-law Simone. He admired her for years already, but now overwhelms her with gifts and treats her like a queen. He acts also submissive and is delighted as he can touch her leg. Just before he dies, Hamelinck makes the wish to get Simone's footprints on his memorial stone.