Aunt Iki (2022)
Overview
Sigrid Koetse, award-winning actor and grande dame of Dutch theater, lived most of her life in the public eye and was always surrounded by a crowd of admirers. With this short documentary, filmmaker Wytse Koetse shows how his aunt spends her days nowadays, lonely in her Amsterdam home.
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| Popularity | 0.609 |
Directed By
Wytse Koetse
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Wytse Koetse
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