Vigor

About Vigor

Vigor or Kracht is a 1990 Dutch drama film directed by Frouke Fokkema.

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Vigor or Kracht is a 1990 Dutch drama film directed by Frouke Fokkema.

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Cast

Theu Boermans as Bert

Anneke Blok as Roos

Dave van Dinther as Thomas

Khaldoun Elmecky as Jeu

Bert Geurkink as Jo

Jaap Spijkers as Slager

Marisa Van Eyle as Slagersvrouw

Ivo Jacobs as Slagerszoon

Rogier Gerardu as Slagerszoon

Mieke Verheyden as Moeder

Marieke Heebink as Maria

Eelco Vellema as Hubert

Dea Koert as Marie-Louise

Myranda Jongeling as Marktvrouw

Rik Launspach as Sjors

Release

Home media

Vigour received a 4K restoration and a re-release as part of EYE Film Institute Netherlands's "Icons of Dutch cinema" in 2024. Filmkrant described the film as having "earned" the icon label and named it a somewhat forgotten Dutch classic.

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Notable quotes

“When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?”
— Aeschylus, fragment, quoted by Steven Stavropoulos, The Beginning of All Wisdom: Timeless Advice from the Ancient Greeks (2003), p. 33
“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
— Henry Ward Beecher, quoted in Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher (1858), ed. Edna Dean Proctor, p. 52
“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”
— Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, as quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, ed. Margaret Gee (2001), p. 71
“I'm not weak — I'm too strong. The bracelets bound my strength to good purposes — Now I'm completely uncontrolled! I'm free to destroy like a man!”
— William Moulton Marston, "The Unbound Amazon", Sensation Comics #19 (July 1943), Wonder Woman
“What strength!! But don't forget there are many guys like you all over the world.”
— Street Fighter (1987 video game)
“And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
— 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NKJV).

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