Ten-year-old Mara is the only one in her class who doesn’t have a bike. It makes Mara’s life difficult, especially in Holland where almost everyone owns one and it’s a necessity to get around. Mara decides to take matters into her own hands and to build a bicycle. She uses parts of her classmates’ bikes to assemble her own, and in the process receives a magical bicycle bell from an unknown vagrant.
De Fiets
1997
Children’s film
Dutch
Bas Dumoulin
Bas Dumoulin
Marlies Rutten, Freek de Jonge, Roef Ragas
VPRO (NL)
NOS
Rinkel Film Productions, Thuiskopie fonds (NL), Amsterdam fonds voor de kunst (NL), Union Bikes (NL), NOS (NL) and Metasound (NL)
6 territories
Screened at more than 35 film festivals worldwide