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Pim de la Parra
Paramaribo - Dutch Guiana [now Suriname]
Pim de la Parra (5 January 1940 – 6 September 2024) was a Surinamese-Dutch film director. De la Parra was born in Paramaribo and is partly of Portuguese-Jewish descent. He was ed…
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Pim de la Parra (5 January 1940 – 6 September 2024) was a Surinamese-Dutch film director. De la Parra was born in Paramaribo and is partly of Portuguese-Jewish descent. He was educated at the Netherlands Film Academy. He became an editorial board member of the film magazine Skoop from 1963 which had been established by other students of the Academy.Between 1967 and 1976, he directed films under the independent production company Scorpio Films with Dutch film director Wim Verstappen, who managed all of its achievements. After a few short films, he began his career as an international director with Obsessions (1969), co-written by Martin Scorsese. He co-produced Blue Movie (1971) by Wim Verstappen, which was one of the most erotic movies of its time, showing nudity with a realism that confounded critics and censorship authorities. It was followed by Frank en Eva (1973), Alicia (1974), Dakota (1975) and Mijn Nachten met Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra (1975), these four films forming an erotic tetralogy written with Charles Gormley. In 1976, he directed Wan Pipel, the first film shot entirely with actors from Suriname. De la Parra had two daughters: the actress Bodil(born 1963) and the comedian Nina (born 1987). His son, Pimm Jal (born 1966) died in 2002. De la Parra died in Paramaribo on 6 September 2024, at the age of 84.
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2026
Diary of a Weak Yogi
Movie Writer
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2010
Parradox
Movie Himself
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2007
Het geheim van de Saramacca rivier
Movie Director
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1995
Dream of a Shadow
Movie Director
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1993
There is no budget like low budget
Movie Self
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1993
Hollywood by Bike
Movie Self
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1993
Vrouwen van vandaag
Movie Director
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1992
The Ditvoorst Domains
Movie Self
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1991
Revelations of an Insomniac
Movie Director
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1991
How to Survive a Broken Heart
Movie Producer
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1991
Het labyrint der lusten
Movie Director
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1990
Let the Music Dance
Movie Director
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1990
The Night of the Wild Donkeys
Movie Waldo van Romondt
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1989
Max & Laura & Henk & Willie
Movie Max
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1989
Lost in Amsterdam
Movie Director
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1987
Odyssey of Love
Movie Writer
More credits
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1986
Intoxicated
Movie Director
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1985
Paul Chevrolet and the Ultimate Hallucination
Movie Director
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1981
Aruba Affair
Movie Waldo
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1980
Dirty Picture
Movie Director
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1979
Ontmoetingen
Movie
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1976
Naked and Lustful
Movie
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1976
One People
Movie Director
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1975
Mens erger je niet
Movie Pim
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1975
My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie
Movie Director
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1974
Alicia
Movie Xander
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1974
Dakota
Movie Producer
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1973
Frank and Eva
Movie Writer
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1972
VD
Movie Producer
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1972
The Burglar
Movie Drug dealer
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1971
Blue Movie
Movie Producer
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1970
Rubia's Jungle
Movie Writer
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1969
Drop-out
Movie Producer
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1969
Obsessions
Movie Writer
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1969
Joop
Movie Writer
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1967
Confessions of Loving Couples
Movie Writer
- 1966
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1966
Heart Beat Fresco
Movie Director
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1965
Jongens, jongens, wat een meid
Movie Director
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1965
Aah... Tamara
Movie Director
