The Breath of Life
2023, Dutch. Directed by Guido van der Werve.
After a near-fatal accident, filmmaker Guido van der Werve muses about the highs and lows of his own life as he endures a long process of recovery. Instead of a linear narrative, Nummer achttien is structured as a series of movements: it departs from the classical documentary to present us with a series of vignettes that combine past and present, existentialist despair and deadpan humour, reflection and creativity, the joys and pains of remembering and forgetting.
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Dutch
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- Released
- 25 January 2023
- Original title
- Nummer achttien
- Country
- Netherlands
- Written by
- Guido van der Werve
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The Breath of Life runs 91 minutes (1h 31m).
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The Breath of Life isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 25 January 2023. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Breath of Life?
The Breath of Life (2023) was directed by Guido van der Werve and stars Guido van der Werve, Johanna Ketola, Suze van Oort.