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Whitey, original title: De Witte van Sichem, is a Belgian movie by Robbe De Hert released in 1980. The movie is an adaption of Ernest Claes' novel De Witte. It stars Eric Clerckx, Willy Vandermeulen, Blanka Heirman, Paul S Jongers, Luc Philips and Paul-Emile Van Royen. It is the second adaption of the book. The other movie was released in 1934 as De Witte. The title ''Whitey'' refers to the nickname of the main character: Louis Verheyden, a blond naughty boy of eleven year. ==Plot== The movie is set in and around Sichem in 1901. Louis Verheyden, 11 years old, lives with his parents and two brothers on a farm. His mother is a complaining woman. Father works at the farm of landowner Coene. He is mostly only home during dinner. He is a rather aggressive man and beats Louis frequently. Furthermore Louis is bullied by his brothers Nis and Heinke. Louis hates school. This is mostly caused as their teacher is a very hard man who likes to punish his pupils. Corporal punishment was not yet forbidden those days and the children are cuffed on the ears or put into the choal chamber by the teachers. Louis is a naughty boy. He gives others incorrect directions, tries to haggle of money from his brothers, ties up persons to their chairs during church service, steals smoking materials from Coene, gives his family members instructions to put salt onto the potatoes (resulting they are salted three times), chases off the horses of Coene, ... Louis is almost caught every time which results in another punishment. His most humiliated punishment was when he went swimming in river Demer although this was forbidden by his parents. When his mother arrived at the river, Louis hid and his friends tried to deceive mother by telling they did not see Louis. However, mother found his clothes and took them away. As a result, Louis had to go naked to home. Louis is sent by Coene to Averbode Abbey to deliver a package. There he is impressed by the beautiful interior, the Gregorian singing, the garden full of flowers and the printing establishment. One day, Louis is again punished by his teacher and put on the cellar. There he finds some books written by Hendrik Conscience. His attention goes to the book De Leeuw van Vlaanderen ''(translated as 'The Lion of Flanders')'' and handles about the Battle of the Golden Spurs. The story fascinates him and he needles up his friends to replay a fight scene. Some injured children run to their home. Their mothers and the local priest come to the battle. Louis, wholly engrossed in his role as warrior Jan Breydel, is even not aware he just started a "sword battle" with the priest. Desperated, mother sends Louis and Heinke on pilgrimage hoping the Lord will turn Louis into a well-behaving boy. They end up in a street fight between the police and supporters of the socialism and have to flee into a pub. However, the pub seems to be owned by socialists. Heinke, a catholic, tries to impress the female bartender by telling he also supports the socialism. Louis thinks this is blasphemy and threatens Heinke he will inform his girlfriend Liza. It's the annual fair and Louis deceives his brother by telling him his mother has promised to give 15 Belgian Cents. At the fair, Louis meets his mother. Louis complains he has no money, resulting he gets some more pocket money. Of course, mother finds out Louis was given money twice. His father is furious and demands his son must work for Coene to retrieve the money or must be sent to a community home. Meanwhile two incidents happen: Louis tries to commit suicide in river Demer whilst Liza ends her relationship with Heinke. Last action ends up in a fight in a spiegeltent where the funfair ball takes place. The movie is then set to 1980 where a blond student, resembling to Louis ''(it is actually actor Eric Clerckx with another haircut''), is working in the printing establishment of Averbode Abbay. When he drops a box, he is scolded by his boss. In the box is the 117th reprint of novel "Whitey". 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「Whitey (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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