The Breath of Life

After a near-fatal accident, filmmaker Guido van der Werve muses about the highs and lows of his own life as he endures a long process of recovery. Instead of a linear narrative, Nummer achttien is structured as a series of movements: it departs from the classical documentary to present us with a series of vignettes that combine past and present, existentialist despair and deadpan humour, reflection and creativity, the joys and pains of remembering and forgetting.

Cast

Guido van der Werve

Johanna Ketola

Suze van Oort

Mats Bakker

Evan Zeldenrust

Guido Pollemans

Marguerite de Brauw