Fons Rademakers

Alphonse Marie Fons Rademakers 5 September 1920 22 February 2007 was a Dutch actor film director film producer and screenwriter His 1960 film Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear Award During a career spanning several decades he directed 11 films including The Assault which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986 and The Village on the River nominated for the same award in 1959 Making him both the first Dutch director to be nominated and win this award He granted a wideranging interview to Radio Netherlands in 1987 He died in 2007 in a Geneva hospital of emphysema after the lifesupport machines were switched off at his request