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Ad Fundum is a belge film of genre Drama directed by Erik Van Looy with Mathias Sercu
Ad Fundum (1993)
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Add to a movie listAd Fundum is a 1993 Belgian drama film directed by Erik Van Looy. It is his first feature-length film after the short movies 'Dr. Tritsmans' and 'Yuppies'. It tells the story of some students studying at the university of Leuven, and who participate in some initiation rites.
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Sammy, Dennis and Tom are 18 years old and inscribed as student at the university in Leuven. They rent some rooms in a fraternity house. As first-year students they decide to join a student association and have a hazing. They become freshman and "sell" themselves to do some tasks. The shy Sammy is giving the task to bring a jar of his own semen to the initiation ceremony. As he rejects, he is set on a "flying carpet". Whilst Sammy is in the air, chairman Guy Bogaerts orders the students to withdraw the carpet. Sammy falls on the ground, breaks his vertebra and dies immediately.Actors
Mathias Sercu
(Dennis)
Axel Daeseleire
(Tits)
Jan Bijvoet
(Piet)
Jaak Van Assche
(Louis Raes)
Marilou Mermans
(Magda Raes)
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