In the 1980s, the Flemish city film has its heyday. After years of historical dramas and literary adaptations, Flemish cinema reinvents itself. In his debut, director Marc Didden (1949), a Brussels’ ketje himself, chronicles a desperate murderer’s wanderings through the desolate Brussels’ night.
In the same year – but in a far less dark melancholic atmosphere, Antwerp director Patrick Le Bon makes the first Belgian police film, Zaman.