Michiel van Erp (Directing)

Little is known about Michiel van Erp, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

A Beautiful Imperfection

A Beautiful Imperfection tells the empowering story of Lucia, Giacomo Casanova’s only great love, who leaves Italy for Amsterdam after her face has been disfigured by smallpox. Sixteen years later, they meet again when she has reinvented herself as a veiled courtesan now known by the name of Galathée. Without revealing her true identity or showing her face, Lucia and Giacomo become lovers once again. Will Lucia dare to reveal herself and turn her weakness into her strength so that she can be truly free in the eyes of her great love?

Release Date:2024-09-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

The Hunt

Inspired by a true crime that gripped a whole nation for more than a decade. In the spring of 1999, the body of a 16-year-old girl was found on the outskirts of a small village in The Netherlands, next to an asylum seekers' center. ‘The Hunt’ depicts how the long and frustrating search for the perpetrator confronted the inhabitants and asylum seekers of this little Dutch town with xenophobia, racism, and bizarre and persistent conspiracy theories, fueled by social media. The crime remained unsolved for more than 12 years, until an unprecedented use of a large-scale DNA investigation finally solved the case.

Release Date:2024-09-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:3

Seeds of Deceit: The Sperm Donor Doctor

Who are you, when half your DNA isn't what you thought? Dr Jan Karbaat was a trusted IVF expert - but deception lay at the heart of his clinic. A shocking story of fertility fraud.

Release Date:2023-12-04

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:3

Stromboli

Haunted by memories of her broken marriage and a fight with her daughter, a woman joins an intense self-help retreat when her vacation goes awry.

Release Date:2022-11-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:40

De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach

Arjen Lubach dives through the issues of the day past inspiring guests to the bottom of the news. Everyone always wants to go from the issues of the day to deepening. Arjen is really looking forward to the issues of the day.

Release Date:2022-02-21

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

De roze revolutie

Release Date:2021-05-10

Character:Self

Episode Count:4

Matthijs gaat door

Matthijs looks back in surprise. With humor, music and other surprises.

Release Date:2020-12-31

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

I.M.

The true story of the all-consuming love between writer Connie Palmen and journalist Ischa Meijer. Based on Palmen's novel of the same name.

Release Date:2020-12-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:1

Oproerkraaiers

Release Date:2020-12-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Bosrandgeluk

Release Date:2020-09-27

Department:Production

Job:Producer

De Wereld aan je Voeten

In 2010, director Michiel van Erp started filming a group of children in Utrecht. He kept filming them till 2018, the year they turned 18. The film portrays those moments which were crucial for the development and personal growth of the kids.

Release Date:2019-10-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Erwin Olaf - The Legacy

Renowned Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf poses himself some big questions: What has been the meaning of his career? Does his work have any value, and if so, will it continue to be valued in the future? Has his artistic calling, has his life, been of any use? The film shows the struggles of a celebrated artist at the peak of his fame taking stock, with pain in his heart, of a life’s hard work - while, just at the right time, his body of work is safeguarded for posterity.

Release Date:2019-06-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Man Made

In Man Made, Sunny tries to find out what society's ideas regarding masculinity entails. Does testosteron define your masculinity? Can men be victims? And do men suffer under these ideas? In the twentieth century, feminists have fought for the freedom of women and subsequently their emancipation. Is now the time for the emancipation of men, are they next to be set free?

Release Date:2019-04-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

Daddy and the Warlord

In postwar Liberia Clarice Gargard searches the truth concerning her father's dubious connection to warlord Charles Taylor.

Release Date:2019-03-24

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Open Seas

A coming of age story of three young friends during their student years in Amsterdam.

Release Date:2018-10-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

The End of Fear

Who is still afraid of red, yellow and blue? It is one of the most important abstract paintings of the twentieth century and has evoked more than just this provoking question. Fifty years after the event around the painting "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III" by Barnett Newman the question is asked: what is art?

Release Date:2018-01-26

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:2

Brasserie Valentine

Thirty-something Valentine runs a renowned restaurant and her stylish dining room is fully booked for Valentine's Day. Chef cook Angelo prepares the food and the tables are romantically covered. The guests enter, hoping for love on their menus. Valentine has everything under control, she thinks. But how could she expect that Frank, her old flame from 12 years ago would suddenly reappear on this day of love...

Release Date:2016-01-28

Vote Count:13

MH17: Het verdriet van Nederland

Release Date:2015-07-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Satudarah - One Blood

An intimate documentary about motorclub Satudarah, often in the news in Holland for its alleged criminal activities.

Release Date:2015-06-18

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

Ramses

A chronicle of legendary Dutch singer Ramses Shaffy’s rise to fame, from his early days as a stage actor in late 1950s Amsterdam to his emergence as a national music icon throughout the following two decades.

Release Date:2014-01-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:4

I Am a Woman Now

Whoever wanted a sex reassignment surgery in the 1950's could do so in Casablanca, at French gynaecologist Georges Burou's clinic, without fear of psychological examination. The French transgender singer known as Coccinelle was one of the first to use Burou’s services, and many others followed. Michiel Van Erp’s film follows five women who underwent surgery during that time, just before the sexual revolution and the Gay Liberation movement of the 1960's. Intimate interviews reveal their lifestyle, what made them change their sex, how it influenced their lives, and how they cope with the unavoidable ageing.

Release Date:2011-12-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Erwin Olaf, on Beauty and Fall

Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (1959) is on the threshold of an important year: his most recent photographic series, Hope, Grief and Rain appear to have given him an international breakthrough. His work has been criticized since the 1980s as being produced merely for its shock value, thus eliminating it as art. But now that important art dealers and museums all over the world are showing his works, and huge crowds are visiting his expositions, it seems as if his years of hard work will finally lead to serious recognition. Yet this is occurring, of all times, in a period of his life in which Erwin Olaf is contending with emphysema, a debilitating disease that obliges him to deal cautiously with his energy reserves. Whether his body can keep up with his work pace is uncertain.

Release Date:2009-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Fear

In Fear, documentary filmmaker Michiel van Erp creates a collage of inhabitants of the city of Amsterdam who struggle with various anxiety disorders. Today, more patients with anxiety disorders seek professional help than those who suffer from depression, making anxiety the number one mental illness in the Netherlands. This film will show how a small number of those patients attempt to overcome their fears, in order to get on with their lives in the crowded cosmopolitan city that Amsterdam is today.

Release Date:2009-05-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Sylvia Kristel: Nu

Thirty years ago Sylvia Kristel became world-famous with 'Emmanuelle'. This erotic film was the starting point of a curious career, during which Sylvia acted in more than 50 international film productions, including a short-lived career in Hollywood. A turbulent life followed, in which alcohol and drug addictions formed a recurring theme. Penniless, she now lives in a small two-room apartment in Amsterdam. Last year La Kristel took control of her life: her autobiography Nue was published in France and has already been sold to several countries.

Release Date:2007-02-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Pretpark Nederland

Michiel van Erp shows us what the Dutch do in their spare time and takes a look at the industry behind all these leisure activities.

Release Date:2006-10-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Divina Gloria

The tropical plant Divina Gloria comes to fruition once every hundred years. For the duration of only one night she shows her exuberant beauty. Then she dies. In this bittersweet comedy we follow a number of people in the Hortus Botanicus, who witness this short-lived bloom. During the night, they become more and more entranced by this sultry miracle, with an ecstatic outcome.

Release Date:2006-09-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director