Meet the Fokkens

Meet the Fokkens

80 mins | Documentary | Dec. 1, 2011

Sisters doing it for themselves in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over fifty years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam's Red Light District, but soon they will bid their farewells. The Ladies Fokkens is a portrait of these remarkable women, as well as a history of the Red Light District over the past fifty years.

Meet the Fokkens

80 mins | Documentary | Dec. 1, 2011

Meet the Fokkens
Sisters doing it for themselves in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over fifty years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam's Red Light District, but soon they will bid their farewells. The Ladies Fokkens is a portrait of these remarkable women, as well as a history of the Red Light District over the past fifty years.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Submarine
Original title Ouwehoeren
Directors Rob Schröder, Gabrielle Provaas
Writers Rob Schröder, Gabrielle Provaas

Cast

Louise Fokkens

as Herself

Martine Fokkens

as Herself