'' The Northerners '' ( ) is a 1992 Dutch film by Alex van Warmerdam . The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee . This black comedy takes places in the 1960s , in a surreal Dutch new town consisting of only a single street . It is a darkly amusing satire of bourgeois life and its repressions , pursuit of fantasies through a Freudian forest are all executed with visual and dramatic flair . Van Warmerdam himself has said that he considers this his best film
65th Academy Awards
65th Academy Awards
The Northerners