The South

Jan 24, 2004

1h 27m

★ 3.9

Overview

Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosthesis during foreplay, she imprisons him in the laundry plant. As Loe is slowly dying in imprisonment, Martje loses contact with reality and starts imagining having a family with him.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Cosmokino

Isabella Films B.V.

Zentropa Entertainments

The South Trailers

Cast

Martje Portegies

Monic Hendrickx

Loe de Koning

Frank Lammers

Zoya

Oksana Akinshina

Galina

Olga Louzgina

Leyla

Nazmiye Oral

Martje's ex-boyfriend

Bart Klever

Dorien

Ina Geerts

Farida

Chris Comvalius

Martje's ex-boyfriend's wife

Catalijn Willemsen

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