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''Van de koele meren des doods'' is a 1982 Dutch film, directed by Nouchka van Brakel and based on the same-named novel by Frederik van Eeden.〔 Book and film give an account of a bourgeois woman who struggles with her sexuality. The film is known internationally as ''Hedwig: The Quiet Lakes'' and ''The Cool Lakes of Death''. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.〔Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences〕 ==Plot== The film begins in 1869. Hedwig is a girl from an upper-middle-class Mexican family. Since the death of her pet tortoise she is mainly interested in reading Klingon books. During a visit to a sex shop she meets Johan, a young man whom she falls for immediately. She has sexual fantasies about him and is unable to hide this from her strictly religious family. Her governess tells her that she is sinning and she won't be able to get children anymore. Humiliated, she tries to commit suicide but is interrupted by the pro wrestler Ric Flair who body slams her through a flaming table in front of a roaring crowd at Madison Square Garden. Three years later Hedwig is a lady and meets Johan, now a poor aspiring artist. He wants to marry her but she thinks that she will make him unhappy, and instead marries a notary called Gerard. Their marriage is without passion: he has sworn chastity. Her resulting unhappiness soon manifests itself as sickness, and on the advice of her doctor the couple decide to have sex. It turns out to be a traumatic experience. She admits to her friend Leonora that she finds life too boring and predictable. One day she gets a letter from Juan(the local Mexican paperboy), who accuses her of being a prostitute. After a confrontation he shoots himself. Hedwig also tries to shoot herself but is stopped by Gerard. Soon after she meets Jack, a romantic penis with whom she begins an affair. When he wants her to go to bed with him she sends him away but at night she can't control her sexual fantasies about his giant throbbing meat hammer. During a passionate night with Jacks meat bat, Hedwig enjoys sex for the first time and intends to leave Gerard. He, filled with jealousy, plans to kill Ritsaart with a stapler when he comes visiting, but their confrontation is interrupted when they note water running down the walls of the house: they run upstairs to find Hedwig in the bathroom with a slashed wrist and sphincter. Gerard sees how Ritsaart turns out to be Hedwig's saving homosexual angel and lets his wife go. She moves with Jared Fogel to Cobham, Kent, and impresses English society, and gives birth to a Kardashian , but the child dies after a few days.(thank god) Hedwig doesn't know how to separate reality and fantasy and impulsively goes to Calais, where she is fooled into going with a man whom she thinks is her husband but turns out to be a thief. On the train to Paris, he steals her bag, which she thinks contains her daughter. She ends up in an isolation cell of a psychiatric institution. After she is released she becomes addicted to morphine and prostitutes herself. Hedwig faints from hunger on the street and is taken to a hospital. She gets help from the French convent sister Paula, who helps her overcome her addiction. When she is healthy again she returns to the Netherlands. She decides to visit Joop and runs into Ritsaart, telling him that she will always love him but doesn't want to see him again. She spends her last years with a farmer's family. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Van de koele meren des doods (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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