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Darts Actually

A chaotic self-portrait of a documentary maker in crisis

2014•30m
DocumentaryDramaComedy

Filmmaker Emma Boelhouwer has no affinity whatsoever with darts. Until she is zapping on TV one night and ends up in the middle of a nerve-racking darts game. She is seized by the look on the face of the young, still unknown darter Michael van Gerwen and knows right away: this fellow from Noord-Brabant will become a star. She rushes headlong - with her camera - into a world that is completely new to her.

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Production

Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Bananaz, Buro Brouns

Language

NL

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Emma Boelhouwer

Self

Michael van Gerwen

Michael van Gerwen

Self (archive footage)

Phil Taylor

Phil Taylor

Self (archive footage)

Raymond van Barneveld

Raymond van Barneveld

Self (archive footage)

Adrian Lewis

Adrian Lewis

Self (archive footage)

James Wade

James Wade

Self (archive footage)

Vincent van der Voort

Self (archive footage)

Robert Thornton

Robert Thornton

Self (archive footage)

Andy Hamilton

Self (archive footage)

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