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name: "Matthijs van Heijningen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matthijs-van-heijningen"
fi1m_id: "matthijs-van-heijningen"
imdb_id: "nm0374050"
tmdb_id: 69339
wikidata_id: "Q2695927"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T00:57:24.602788+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."
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# Matthijs van Heijningen

## Identity

Matthijs van Heijningen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/matthijs-van-heijningen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** matthijs-van-heijningen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0374050
- **TMDB ID:** 69339
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2695927
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_van_Heijningen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2695927, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374050/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69339

Producer. Born 1 January 1944 in Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1944, Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
- **Active:** 1982–1992
- **Also known as:** Matthias van Heijningen, Matthijs van Heyningen
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 79 (1), 1990s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_van_Heijningen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2695927, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374050/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69339

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*A Question of Silence*](https://film.one/film/a-question-of-silence.md) (79)

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

## Biography

Matthijs van Heijningen is a Dutch film producer. Born on 17 April 1944 in Alphen aan den Rijn, he studied drama theory in Berlin. In the early 1960s he moved to Amsterdam, where he worked briefly as a mime player and actor before becoming director of the theatre Sigma Centre. He later produced the children's television series De Fabeltjeskrant and worked on international projects in the Netherlands.

In 1974 he founded Sigma Films (later Sigma Pictures) as an independent production company. He has produced more than forty feature films, including literary adaptations and commercial successes such as *A Question of Silence* (1982), *The Lift* (1983), *Ciske the Rat* (1984), *Orlando* (1992, co-producer), *For a Lost Soldier* (1992), and *The Gang of Oss* (2011). He has received several Golden Calf awards for best film and the Culture Prize in 1999.

Van Heijningen has maintained long-term collaborations with directors including Marleen Gorris, Nouchka van Brakel, Ate de Jong and Dick Maas, often working with his partner Guurtje Buddenberg.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Orlando* (1992), Fi1m 81, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/orlando.md)
- *A Question of Silence* (1982), Fi1m 79, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-question-of-silence.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

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

- *Life Is Wonderful* (2018), Producer
- *The Fury* (2016), Producer
- *The Gang of Oss* (2011), Producer
- *Young Kees* (2003), Producer
- *Friendship* (2001), Producer
- *Ciske de Rat* (2001), series, Producer
- *De Zwarte Meteoor* (2000), Producer
- *the Detour* (2000), Producer
- *Based on the Novel* (1999), as Producent
- *Punk Lawyer* (1996), Producer
- *All Men Are Mortal* (1995), Producer
- *Affair Play* (1995), Producer
- *1,000 Roses* (1994), Producer
- *It Will Never Be Spring* (1994), Producer
- *Orlando* (1992), Co-Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/orlando.md)
- *For a Lost Soldier* (1992), Producer
- *Eline Vere* (1991), Producer
- *Vigour* (1990), Producer
- *Loos* (1989), as Cameo
- *Rituals* (1989), Producer
- *A Month Later* (1987), Producer
- *Ciske de Rat* (1986), series, Producer
- *Shadow of Victory* (1986), Producer
- *Broken Mirrors* (1984), Producer
- *Ciske the Rat* (1984), Producer
- *The Lift* (1983), Producer
- *Een zaak van leven of dood* (1983), Presenter, Producer
- *The Cool Lakes of Death* (1982), Producer
- *A Question of Silence* (1982), Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/a-question-of-silence.md)
- *A Flight of Rainbirds* (1981), Producer
- *Familiar Faces, Mixed Feelings* (1980), Producer
- *Dear Boys* (1980), Producer
- *Blood Andy* (1979), Producer
- *A Woman Like Eve* (1979), Producer
- *The Inheritance* (1978), as Dikke man
- *Mysteries* (1978), Producer
- *The Debut* (1977), Producer
- *She* (1976), Producer
- *Every Day's a Holiday* (1976), Producer
- *Lifespan* (1975), Associate Producer
- *Flanagan* (1975), Producer
- *Melancholy Tales* (1975), Producer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Golden Calf Culture Prize 1999: Golden Calf Culture Prize (won)

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

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