---
name: "Kees Kasander"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kees-kasander"
fi1m_id: "kees-kasander"
imdb_id: "nm0440413"
tmdb_id: 51919
wikidata_id: "Q55688372"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T21:07:22.972973+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kees Kasander

## Identity

Kees Kasander

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kees-kasander
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kees-kasander
- **IMDb ID:** nm0440413
- **TMDB ID:** 51919
- **Wikidata ID:** Q55688372
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55688372, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440413/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51919

Producer. Born 1 January 1955 in Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1955, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
- **Active:** 1988–2009
- **Frequently works with:** [Peter Greenaway](https://film.one/person/peter-greenaway.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 78 (1), 1990s 64 (1), 2000s 85 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $14m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55688372, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440413/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51919

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Fish Tank*](https://film.one/film/fish-tank.md) (85)
- **Apple TV:** [*The Pillow Book*](https://film.one/film/the-pillow-book.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kees Kasander is a Dutch film producer. Born in 1955 in Gorinchem, he entered the industry in 1978 as head of distribution for Film International, a company involved in the Rotterdam Film Festival. He began producing independently in 1981 and later established Kasander Film in Rotterdam.

Kasander is known for his long collaboration with director Peter Greenaway, serving as producer on films including *A Zed & Two Noughts* (1985), *Drowning by Numbers* (1988), *The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover* (1989), *Prospero's Books* (1991), *The Pillow Book* (1995) and *Nightwatching* (2007). He also produced *Fish Tank* (2009), directed by Andrea Arnold.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, shorescripts.com, filmfestival.nl.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Fish Tank* (2009), Fi1m 85, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/fish-tank.md)
- *The Pillow Book* (1995), Fi1m 64, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-pillow-book.md)
- *The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover* (1989), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-and-her-lover.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *It’s Raining Women* (2022), Creative Producer
- *Summer in the Shade* (2020), Executive Producer
- *King of Katoren* (2012), Producer
- *Goltzius & the Pelican Company* (2012), Producer
- *Fish Tank* (2009), Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/fish-tank.md)
- *Elegy of a Voyage* (2009), Producer
- *Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!* (2008), Producer
- *Nightwatching* (2007), Producer
- *Crusade in Jeans* (2006), Producer
- *The Pervert's Guide to Cinema* (2006), Co-Producer
- *A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper* (2005), Producer
- *The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish* (2005), Producer
- *Visions of Europe* (2004), Producer
- *The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story* (2003), Producer
- *Ken Park* (2003), Producer
- *Hoover Street Revival* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Wild Innocence* (2001), Producer
- *Babs* (2000), Producer
- *King of the Korner* (2000), Producer
- *The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama* (1999), Producer
- *8 ½ Women* (1999), Producer
- *Cowboy from Iran* (1999), Producer
- *The Flying Liftboy* (1998), Co-Producer
- *The Pillow Book* (1995), Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-pillow-book.md)
- *Prince of Jutland* (1994), Producer
- *The Act in Question* (1994), General Manager
- *The Baby of Mâcon* (1993), Producer
- *When Pigs Fly* (1993), Producer
- *A Man Needs a Plan* (1993), Producer
- *Figaro Story* (1993), Executive Producer, Producer
- *Darwin* (1992), Producer
- *Rapado* (1992), Producer
- *Rosa* (1992), Producer
- *Everybody Wants to Help Ernest* (1992), Producer
- *The Sunday Child* (1992), Producer
- *Vinaya* (1992), Producer
- *Tadzio* (1991), Producer
- *Prospero's Books* (1991), Producer
- *A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)* (1991), Producer
- *Alissa in Concert* (1990), Producer
- *Theo en Thea en de ontmaskering van het tenenkaasimperium* (1989), Producer
- *The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover* (1989), Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-and-her-lover.md)
- *Sailors Don't Cry* (1989), Producer
- *Drowning by Numbers* (1988), Producer
- *A Zed & Two Noughts* (1985), Producer
- *A Strange Love Affair* (1985), Producer
- *Mathilde* (1985), Producer
- *Naughty Boys* (1984), Producer
- *Het veld van eer* (1983), Producer
- *On Top of the Whale* (1982), Producer
- *Bosch*, Producer
- *The Food of Love*, Producer
- *Tower Stories*, Producer
- *Eisenstein in Hollywood*, Producer
- *Walking to Paris*, Line Producer

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Film 2009: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Fish Tank*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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