Little Tony (film)

Little Tony (Kleine Teun) is a 1998 Dutch comedy film drama directed by Alex van Warmerdam. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

In a review for Variety, David Rooney called the film "[a] droll comedy", but also mentioning that its "both blacker and more tightly focused".

Plot
Farmer Brand can't read and he is quite happy with that. His wife, Keet, who has to read him all the subtitles on the television, isn't. She decides to hire a teacher for him. This is a beautiful young woman, called Lena. Brand falls in love with her. To his puzzlement and dismay Keet encourages him, because as she says she doesn't want a husband with another woman in his head. She even goes so far as to claim, she's just Brand's sister. She also wants Lena to give Brand and her a son. The love between Brand and Lena does not grow stale as Keet hoped after the birth of little Tony. Keet, who is a barren herself decides Lena has to be eliminated with the arrival of little Tony between them.

Cast

 * Alex van Warmerdam	as Brand
 * Annet Malherbe	as Keet
 * Ariane Schluter as Lena
 * Sebastiaan te Wierik as Kleine Teun
 * Aat Ceelen	as Butcher
 * Beppe Costa as Verger
 * Joeri Keyzers as Baby
 * Rick Keyzers as Baby
 * Maike Meijer as Young Mother
 * Thomas Rap	as Man at strawheap
 * Hanneke Riemer	as Friend of Lena
 * Dolf Sauter as Priest
 * Tomas te Wierk as Teun
 * Houk van Warmerdam as Acolyte
 * Marc van Warmerdam as Neighbour
 * Mees van Warmerdam	as Acolyte