Beppie

BEPPIE is a moving and disarming portrait of an Amsterdam street urchin Van der Keuken once described her as follows She was ten years old and the joy of the Achtergracht where I was living at the time An Amsterdam child sweet and crooked as a corkscrew He films her while she skims the city with some friends and knocks at strangers doors Her family has nine children and is not well off In those days a visit to the De Miranda swimming pool cost a quarter but only ten cents if the weather was bad At school Beppie gets a poor mark because she is too boisterous but when the whole class rattles off the multiplication tables she joins in at the top of her voice All of TVwatching Holland was wildly enthusiastic about this portrait with which Van der Keuken even made the front page of the national newspaper De Telegraaf