Pipo en de PPParelridder English translation Pipo and the ppPearl Knight is a 2003 Dutch movie based on the childrens television show Pipo de Clown. The film received a Golden Film for having drawn 100,000 visitors.
The script is loosely based on a 1960 Pipo TV series, Pipo en de Slaapridder, which was filmed on location for 9000 guilders. The movie was filmed in Spain for around 3.5 million and premiered in November 2003. The role of Snuf, one of the two crooks, was played by Rudi Falkenhagen, age 72. Falkenhagen was the last survivor of the original television show and Snuf was his first big role. He died two years later. Tara Elders, who starred in a number of Theo van Gogh movies, plays the part of the titular characters lady lover.Pipo receives a letter from Aunt Anouschka, asking him for help with mysterious events in a nearby castle which appears to be haunted. Pipo leaves the circus in the hands of his wife Mamaloe and daughter Petra, to the chagrin of circus director Dikke Deura circus without Pipo sells fewer tickets. When Pipo arrives at the castle there is no ghost instead, he finds a knight who has been asleep for 500 years. He is awakened, but the next problem is finding and waking his lady lover, who has also been asleep that long. ........
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