Albert 'Bert' Haanstra was a Dutch film director of films and documentaries. His documentary Glass (1958) won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. His feature film Fanfare (1958) was the most visited Dutch film at the time, and has since only been surpassed by Turkish Delight (1973).
Academy Awards
Best Documentary
Known For
Trafic
(1971)
Co-Director
Full Filmography
Directing
The Muider Group Revived
(1949)
Director
Mirror of Holland
(1950)
Director
Medieval Dutch Sculpture
(1951)
Director
Panta Rhei
(1952)
Director
The Dike Builders
(1952)
Director
Arise and Perish
(1954)
Director
The Detection of Mineral Oil
(1954)
Director
The Reconnaissance Drill
(1954)
Director
The Oil Field
(1954)
Director
And There Was No More Sea
(1955)
Director
God Shiva
(1955)
Director
Battle Without End
(1955)
Director
Rembrandt, Painter of Man
(1957)
Director
Fanfare
(1958)
Director
Glass
(1958)
Director
Speaking of Glass
(1958)
Director
The Manneken Pis Case
(1960)
Director
The Zoo
(1961)
Director
Delta Phase 1
(1962)
Director
Everyman
(1963)
Director
The Voice of the Water
(1966)
Director
Retour Madrid
(1968)
Director
Trafic
(1971)
Co-Director
Ape and Super-Ape
(1972)
Director
Dr. Pulder Sows Poppies
(1975)
Director
National Parks.... Necessarly
(1978)
Director
Mr. Slotter's Jubilee
(1979)
Director
The Netherlands
(1983)
Director
The World of Simon Carmiggelt
(1983)
Director
The Hairdresser
(1983)
Director
The Family of Chimps
(1984)
Director
Monument for a Gorilla
(1987)
Director
Children of Ghana
(1988)
Director
Acting
...Geist und ein wenig Glück
(1965)
Himself
The Family of Chimps
(1984)
(voice)
Amsterdamned
(1988)
Conductor
Writing
Mirror of Holland
(1950)
Writer
The Oil Field
(1954)
Writer
The Detection of Mineral Oil
(1954)
Writer
And There Was No More Sea
(1955)
Writer
Fanfare
(1958)
Writer
Glass
(1958)
Writer
Everyman
(1963)
Co-Writer
The Voice of the Water
(1966)
Writer
National Parks.... Necessarly
(1978)
Writer
Juliana in Zeventig Bewogen Jaren
(1979)
Writer
Production
Myrte & The Demons
(1950)
Producer
Everyman
(1963)
Producer
Dr. Pulder Sows Poppies
(1975)
Producer
The Family of Chimps
(1984)
Producer
Camera
Editing