Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestNow that the war is over, Riphagen secretly returns to his family in Amsterdam. He fears being arrested as a traitor.
During the Second World War, the notorious Amsterdam criminal Dries Riphagen worked fanatically with the Nazis. Riphagen becomes immeasurably rich by tracking down, extorting and betraying Jewish people in hiding, and feels untouchable in the process. But when he betrays an important resistance group, the young police officer and resistance fighter Jan van Liempd opens the hunt for him.
Acting
Koningsbrugge plays Riphagen with oily, terrifying charm.
Production
Period Amsterdam feels lived-in, not museum-piece.
Writing
Every friendship he fakes makes your skin crawl.
Creators
Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Pieter Kuijpers
Jeroen van Koningsbrugge
Dries Riphagen
Lisa Zweerman
Greetje
Sigrid ten Napel
Lena
Anna Raadsveld
Betje Wery
Tjebbo Gerritsma
Joop Out
Micha Hulshof
Albert Kok
Guido Pollemans
Harry Rond
Mark Rietman
Louis Einthoven
Michel Sluysmans
Wim Sanders
Lukas Dijkema
Barman stamcafé
Huub Smit
Toon Kuijper
Bob Stoop
Charly Hartog
Britte Lagcher
Sister Greetje
Antoinette Jelgersma
Esther Schaap
Peter Blok
Gert van der Veen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare Dutch production confronting WWII collaboration without national myth-making — no heroic resistance fantasy here.
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