Biography

Born Alma Veenman in Utrecht in 1930, Lili Rademakers married Fons Rademakers, the Netherlands' most prominent filmmaker and assisted him both in real life (she is the mother of Fons and Alfred, their two sons) and in artistic life (she served as his assistant-director for several of his movies). She also directed two films herself, both co-produced by her husband. "Menuet" (1982), was awarded the best first film prize that same year and earned another award the following year at the International Critics' Week in Cannes. Her second work "Dagboek van een oude dwaas" (Diary of an Old Madman) was made in Belgium four years later. Adapted from a Japanese novel by Tanizaki, this cruel tale examines the erotic passion of an old man close to death for his daughter-in-law.
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Children: sons Fons and Alfred.

Lili Rademakers was a Dutch director, who attended vocational training in Rome for cinematography in the 1950s. Here she met Dutch director Fons Rademakers, whom she married and became his assistant.

Only in the 1980s - at the insistence of Flemish director, writer and screenwriter Hugo Claus - did she start directing herself.

In Italy, Rademakers worked as a script girl for Federico Fellini on his famous 1960 film La dolce vita. She stood by as Fellini shot the famous scene at the Trevi Fountain with actors Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni.

In 1982, Rademakers made her first own film, the Belgian-Dutch co-production Menuet, based on the book of the same name by Louis Paul Boon.