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Erik or the Small Book of Insects

  • 2004
  • TMDB 5.5/10
  • 1h 37m

Erik is a Dutch ten year-old schoolboy who is studying insects at school, and gets shown and explained a bit about them by his kind and knowledgeable nature-loving grandfather, whose country estate is a good place to do so and turns out to have a book on insects, which allows Erik to pass for one night, rather like Alice in Wonderland, as a miniature man among thus giant-looking, talking insects, who discuss their and other species and their lives with him, mainly winged ones, such as bee, fly and wasp.

Overview

Erik is a Dutch ten year-old schoolboy who is studying insects at school, and gets shown and explained a bit about them by his kind and knowledgeable nature-loving grandfather, whose country estate is a good place to do so and turns out to have a book on insects, which allows Erik to pass for one night, rather like Alice in Wonderland, as a miniature man among thus giant-looking, talking insects, who discuss their and other species and their lives with him, mainly winged ones, such as bee, fly and wasp.

Cast

  • Jasper OldenhofErik Pinksterblom
  • Jörgen RaymannHommel
  • Lenette van DongenLeraar
  • Anne-Mieke RuytenMoeder
  • Yale SackmanRosalie
  • Hugo HaenenVader
  • Jaak Van AsscheOpa
  • Merijn van HeiningenVictor Sjollema

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