Go to content
Reconstruction of the case of the serial rapist in Utrecht, which was solved owing to a DNA match. The question is inevitable: Shouldn’t everyone be obliged to submit DNA?

For years, the case of the serial rapist in Utrecht was a cold case, which remained unsolved despite a long-term and large-scale police investigation. Until suddenly in 2014 a DNA match was found and a suspect was arrested. This reconstruction of the case raises questions about the importance of DNA research in criminal cases. Would a breakthrough have been reached earlier if all citizens had been obliged to submit a sample for a national DNA data bank? Is such an obligation a good idea, or would it be too big a violation of privacy?

Credits

Director
Executive producer
Set geluid
Sound editing
Production company
Submarine
TV company
VPRO
Postproduction company
Filmdoc

Title: De jacht op de match
Year: 2017
Duration : 1 hour, 28 minutes
Category: Long Documentary
Edition: NFF 2017

NFF Archive

You are now in the NFF Archive. The archive contains contains information on film, TV and interactive productions that were screened at past festival editions. The NFF does not dispose of this material. For this, please contact the producer, distributor or broadcaster. Sometimes, older films can also be found at the Eye Film Museum or the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Stills

Still
Still
Still