Lifespan

About Lifespan

Lifespan is a 1976 Dutch thriller film directed by Alexander Whitelaw and starring Hiram Keller, Tina Aumont and Klaus Kinski.

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Lifespan is a 1976 Dutch thriller film directed by Alexander Whitelaw and starring Hiram Keller, Tina Aumont and Klaus Kinski.

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Plot

American Dr. Ben Land travels to Amsterdam to meet with Dr. Linden, an expert on aging who is supposedly close to a breakthrough. Unfortunately, Dr. Linden is discovered hanged and Ben is left with only baffling clues. He becomes intimate with Anna, who worked as a bondage model for the doctor. In an extended and controversial scene, the two engage in light shibari bondage of Anna, the first such instance of bondage in mainstream media. Later, Ben discovers that Anna knows more than she should about the mysterious 'Swiss man', Nicholas Ulrich.

Cast

Hiram Keller as Dr. Ben Land

Tina Aumont as Anna

Klaus Kinski as Nicholas Ulrich

Adrian Brine as Dr. Winston

Rudi Falkenhagen as Police inspector

Rudolf Lucieer as Journalist

Sacco van der Made as Animal feeder

Paul Melton as Journalist

Helen van Meurs as Psychiatrist

Onno Molenkamp as Director of old age home

Frans Mulder as Pim Henke

Lydia Polak as Lydia

Fons Rademakers as Prof. van Arp

Joan Remmelts as Family doctor

Dick Scheffer as Official from ministry of science

Eric Schneider - as . Linden

André van den Heuvel as Felix Dolda

Albert Van Doorn as Emile van der Lutte

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Notable quotes

“Thank you life, I don't know anything about you. When I found all the questions, all the answers were lost to me.~~ March 8, 2025”
— Abdelnasser Abdelfattah, Abdelnasser Abdelfattah Quotes about life video
“Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years," using the word pilgrimage in reference to life on earth, which the pious regard as a temporary sojourn in alien lands.”
— Louis Ginzberg, in Legends of the Jews (1909)
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it.”
— Anaïs Nin, entry for February 1954, in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 38.
“Life is something that everyone should try at least once.”
— Henry J. Tillman, as quoted in In Your 60s (2009) by Judy Valon, Wakefield Press; and in Pathological Altruism (2012), edited by Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, Guruprasad Madhavan, and David Sloan Wilson, Oxford University Press
“Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.”
— Isidore of Seville
“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, chapter 6, conclusion (vol. 2 of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau), p. 170 (1906, reprinted 1968). Originally published in 1854.

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