<strong>De tranen van Maria Machita</strong><br><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="Shadowbox.open({content: '/profs_en/persons/paul-ruven?film=de-tranen-van-maria-machita', player: 'iframe', width: 600, height: 300, title: 'Paul Ruven' });" text="Paul Ruven">Paul Ruven</a>, 1991<br>Feature<br> <strong>De tranen van Maria Machita</strong><br><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="Shadowbox.open({content: '/profs_en/persons/paul-ruven?film=de-tranen-van-maria-machita', player: 'iframe', width: 600, height: 300, title: 'Paul Ruven' });" text="Paul Ruven">Paul Ruven</a>, 1991<br>Feature<br> <strong>De tranen van Maria Machita</strong><br><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="Shadowbox.open({content: '/profs_en/persons/paul-ruven?film=de-tranen-van-maria-machita', player: 'iframe', width: 600, height: 300, title: 'Paul Ruven' });" text="Paul Ruven">Paul Ruven</a>, 1991<br>Feature<br> <strong>De tranen van Maria Machita</strong><br><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="Shadowbox.open({content: '/profs_en/persons/paul-ruven?film=de-tranen-van-maria-machita', player: 'iframe', width: 600, height: 300, title: 'Paul Ruven' });" text="Paul Ruven">Paul Ruven</a>, 1991<br>Feature<br> <strong>De tranen van Maria Machita</strong><br><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="Shadowbox.open({content: '/profs_en/persons/paul-ruven?film=de-tranen-van-maria-machita', player: 'iframe', width: 600, height: 300, title: 'Paul Ruven' });" text="Paul Ruven">Paul Ruven</a>, 1991<br>Feature<br> <strong>De tranen van Maria Machita</strong><br><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="Shadowbox.open({content: '/profs_en/persons/paul-ruven?film=de-tranen-van-maria-machita', player: 'iframe', width: 600, height: 300, title: 'Paul Ruven' });" text="Paul Ruven">Paul Ruven</a>, 1991<br>Feature<br>

De tranen van Maria Machita

 
A very Dutch tear-jerker was the starting point for this neo-Romantic musical. Maria Machita has to face a great deal of suffering in a very short period. Her father gets killed in an accident, haar mother dies on stage and her Turkish lover dissappears suddenly out of the country. Film Academy film won in 1991 a Golden Calf for best Short Film, an Award of the City of Utrecht and the Pathé Tuschinski Award.
Production year1991
Length40 minutes
Production countryNetherlands
DirectorPaul Ruven
ProducerErik Luijten
ProducerBastiaan Anink
ScenarioMike van Diem
ScenarioPaul Ruven
CameraMark van Aller
Production DesignAnet Wilgenhof
Set GeluidEd van Baaren
Set GeluidClarisse de Jongh
EditorSander Vos
MuziekFrank Affolter
Production companyNederlandse Film en Televisie Academie (NFTA)
Cast
Ellen ten Damme, Heddy Lester, Jacques Herb, Ali Cifteci