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…

Directed

1. My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie (1975) — Director
2. Frank and Eva (1973) — Director
3. Obsessions (1969) — Director
4. One People (1976) — Director
5. Paul Chevrolet and the Ultimate Hallucination (1985) — Director
6. The Night of the Wild Donkeys (1990) — Director
7. Lost in Amsterdam (1989) — Director
8. Heart Beat Fresco (1966) — Director
9. Odyssey of Love (1987) — Director
10. Het geheim van de Saramacca rivier (2007) — Director
11. Dirty Picture (1980) — Director
12. Joop (1969) — Director
13. Rubia's Jungle (1970) — Director
14. Let the Music Dance (1990) — Director
15. Intoxicated (1986) — Director
16. Jongens, jongens, wat een meid (1965) — Director
17. Aah... Tamara (1965) — Director
18. Dagboek van een Zwakke Yogi (1993) — Director
19. Vrouwen van vandaag (1993) — Director
20. Dream of a Shadow (1995) — Director
21. Revelations of an Insomniac (1991) — Director
22. Aruba Affair (1981) — Director
23. Megalopolis I (1963) — Director
24. Het labyrint der lusten (1991) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Naked and Lustful (1976)
2. The Burglar (1972) — Drug dealer
3. Alicia (1974) — Xander
4. The Night of the Wild Donkeys (1990) — Waldo van Romondt
5. The Ditvoorst Domains (1992) — Self
6. Mens erger je niet (1975) — Pim
7. Parradox (2010) — Himself
8. Max & Laura & Henk & Willie (1989) — Max
9. Hollywood by Bike (1993) — Self
10. There is no budget like low budget (1993) — Self
11. Ontmoetingen (1979)
12. Aruba Affair (1981) — Waldo
13. Megalopolis I (1963) — Himself
14. Skoop (1964) — Self