Biography
Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Sylvia Kristel: Nu
2007
as Self
Thirty years ago Sylvia Kristel became world-famous with 'Emmanuelle'. This erotic film was the starting point of a curious career, during which Sylvi...

De Verlossing
2001
Director, Writer
A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son Johnny and his daught...

Herman the Gangster
1995
Writer
Short gangster film based on a novella by Belgian writer Hugo Claus.

Janssen & Janssens draaien een film
1990
as Self
A documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema.

The Sacrament
1990
Director, Producer, Writer
The 1950s. A family has its annual family reunion to commemorate the anniversary of mother's death. People drink and eat heavily and after a while all...

Jan Cox, a Painter's Odyssey
1988
as Self
Biographical film about the life and work of the Belgian painter Jan Cox. Cox had a tempestuous youth, during which he co-founded the Jeune Peinture B...

Mascara
1987
Writer
A respected police commissioner has a reputation as a opera lover, but by night he also enjoys plunging into the transvestite scene. In addition, he h...

Diary of a Mad Old Man
1987
Writer
In this erotic drama, Marcel (Ralph Michael) fantasizes about being with his daughter-in-law Simone (Beatie Edney) after the death of his wife. The wo...

The Lion of Flanders
1985
Director, Writer
A tale centered on the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 where the Flemish rank and file won a major victory over the glorious French knights.
Permeke
1985
When Anna, a twenty-eight-year-old photographer, is put in charge of a report on the restoration works at The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, she discove...
De droomproducenten
1984
as Self
Documentary exploring why Belgian television doesn't invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.g. the netherlands.

Minuet
1982
Writer
A factory worker is employed in the desolate, cold-storage cellars of a brewery. His spare time he devotes to collecting romantic images of wild flowe...

Vrijdag
1981
Director, Writer
Hugo Claus rewrote and directed Friday as the cinematic version of his original 1969 play of the same name. Just as in the play, the story begins with...

Whitey
1980
Writer
The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes' classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch 'the White', referr...

The Inheritance
1978
Writer
An ageing GP tries to convince his son in law to take over his practice. Monique van de Ven plays the doctor's daughter, who is torn apart by love of ...

Pallieter
1975
Screenplay
In this film version of the Dutch-language classic ('heimat'-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier wh...

Cancer Rising
1975
Writer
Well to do business man Pierre falls for the unpredictable and free spirited Toni. They begin a relationship, despite the fact that she's living with ...

Because of the Cats
1973
Writer
A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch....

Mira
1971
Writer
The story of a small and conservative West-Flemish village opposing the construction of a bridge over the Scheldt.

The Enemies
1968
Director
The tribulations of an American GI during the Ardennes offensive and the people he encounters, keeps you riveted all the way through the unexpected en...
Toygirl
1968
Director
Short sci-fi where a man finds a robotic woman a.k.a. 'toygirl'.

Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
1967
Scenario Writer
A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression.

The Dance of the Heron
1966
Writer
The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's trying to get his attention by flirting with a Dutch ...
De luitenant
1964
Writer
A film about friendship between forsaken boys.

The Knife
1961
Writer
A boy is resentful of his mother's budding romance with the best friend of her late husband, and is torn and confused about his emerging feelings for ...

Village by the River
1958
Dialogue, Writer
An independent-thinking doctor in a rural community with his own ideas of how medicine should be practiced begins to find himself ostracized from the ...