Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 04, 1940
Died
Sep 06, 2024
Place of Birth
Paramaribo - Dutch Guiana [now Suriname]
Credits
42 titles
Pim de la Parra
Biography
Pim de la Parra (5 January 1940 – 6 September 2024) was a Surinamese-Dutch film director. De la Parra was born in Paramaribo and is partly of Portuguese-Jewish descent. He was educated at the Netherlands Film Academy. He became an editorial board member of the film magazine Skoop from 1963 which had been established by other students of the Academy.Between 1967 and 1976, he directed films under the independent production company Scorpio Films with Dutch film director Wim Verstappen, who managed all of its achievements. After a few short films, he began his career as an international director with Obsessions (1969), co-written by Martin Scorsese. He co-produced Blue Movie (1971) by Wim Verstappen, which was one of the most erotic movies of its time, showing nudity with a realism that confounded critics and censorship authorities. It was followed by Frank en Eva (1973), Alicia (1974), Dakota (1975) and Mijn Nachten met Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra (1975), these four films forming an erotic tetralogy written with Charles Gormley. In 1976, he directed Wan Pipel, the first film shot entirely with actors from Suriname. De la Parra had two daughters: the actress Bodil(born 1963) and the comedian Nina (born 1987). His son, Pimm Jal (born 1966) died in 2002. De la Parra died in Paramaribo on 6 September 2024, at the age of 84.
Known For
Filmography
Diary of a Weak Yogi
Writer
Parradox
Himself
Het geheim van de Saramacca rivier
Director
Dream of a Shadow
Director
There is no budget like low budget
Self
Hollywood by Bike
Self
Vrouwen van vandaag
Director
The Ditvoorst Domains
Self
Revelations of an Insomniac
Director
How to Survive a Broken Heart
Producer
Het labyrint der lusten
Director
Let the Music Dance
Director
The Night of the Wild Donkeys
Waldo van Romondt
Max & Laura & Henk & Willie
Max
Lost in Amsterdam
Director
Odyssey of Love
Director
Intoxicated
Director
Paul Chevrolet and the Ultimate Hallucination
Director
Aruba Affair
Waldo
Dirty Picture
Director
Ontmoetingen
Naked and Lustful
One People
Director
Mens erger je niet
Pim
My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie
Director
Alicia
Xander
Dakota
Producer
Frank and Eva
Director
VD
Producer
The Burglar
Drug dealer
Blue Movie
Producer
Rubia's Jungle
Director
Drop-out
Producer
Obsessions
Director
Joop
Writer
Confessions of Loving Couples
Writer
Joszef Katús's Not Too Fortunate Return to the Land of Rembrandt
Writer
Heart Beat Fresco
Director
Jongens, jongens, wat een meid
Director
Aah... Tamara
Director
Skoop
Self
Megalopolis I
Himself