Bart Chabot started his career as a performing poet. 'Can you deliver on stage?' was more important than publishing. Through the years, poetry and performance gradually grew apart. On the one hand, it seemed that every television show made use of Bart Chabot. On the other, Chabot's literary ambition was also extending. But for many critics, the image of a serious writer was not easily associated with his frequent appearance in many television shows.
Inspired by the tension between these two sides of Chabot's personality, Jeroen S. Rozendaal, Roel van Tour and Pim van Alten created the dramatized documentary 'Interzone' in which the protagonist gets trapped in Chabot's poems in a hotel room on tour.
While filming, Chabot fell ill with serious consequences. Therefore, the film marks the end of an area in which Bart Chabot presented himself as performing poet and all-round TV personality.
Starring: Bart Chabot, Raymond Thiry, Remco Campert, Gerrit Komrij, Ronald Giphart, Anton Corbijn & Tjitske Jansen.
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