Ate de Jong

Ate de Jong was born in 1953 at Aardenburg, in Zeelandic Flanders, a few kilometres from the Belgian border. Admitted at seventeen to the Amsterdam film school, he left it in 1974 and worked first as an editor before moving into directing. The adaptation of a book by Maarten 't Hart launched him in 1981. In 1986 he left for Los Angeles, where he made genre films and episodes of series, then returned to work in Europe.

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• Feature filmBrandende liefdeAte de Jong · 1983Cinema