--- title: 'Waiter (2006)' type: 'film' director: 'Alex van Warmerdam' released: '2006-01-01' runtime_minutes: 97 genres: - 'Comedy' countries: - 'Netherlands' - 'Belgium' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/waiter-2006' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476681/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Waiter (2006) 2006 · 97 min · Comedy · Netherlands, Belgium Original title: Ober ## Synopsis Waiter is a 2006 Dutch-Belgian absurdist black comedy film by Alex van Warmerdam. It tells the story of Edgar, a discontented waiter. The film had its world premiere on the Toronto Film Festival on 10 September 2006. It was the opening film of the Netherlands Film Festival, where Waiter received two Golden Calves, for Best Scenario and Best Production Design. In January 2007 the film received a Golden Film. The film is about stagnation of creativity and a take on overbearing of elements in life, it also takes wryly a puck-shot at god and his relation with humans. ## Credits - **Director:** [Alex van Warmerdam](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-van-warmerdam) - **Screenplay:** [Alex van Warmerdam](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-van-warmerdam) - **Original Music Composer:** [Vincent van Warmerdam](https://cinepixo.com/people/vincent-van-warmerdam) - **Producer:** [Marc van Warmerdam](https://cinepixo.com/people/marc-van-warmerdam) ## Cast - [Aat Ceelen](https://cinepixo.com/people/aat-ceelen) - [Leny Breederveld](https://cinepixo.com/people/leny-breederveld) - [Stefaan Degand](https://cinepixo.com/people/stefaan-degand) - [Togo Igawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/togo-igawa) - [Pierre Bokma](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-bokma) - [Joop Admiraal](https://cinepixo.com/people/joop-admiraal) - [Mark Rietman](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-rietman) - [Waldemar Kobus](https://cinepixo.com/people/waldemar-kobus) - [Alex van Warmerdam](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-van-warmerdam) - [Thekla Reuten](https://cinepixo.com/people/thekla-reuten) - [René van 't Hof](https://cinepixo.com/people/rene-van-t-hof) - [Ariane Schluter](https://cinepixo.com/people/ariane-schluter) - [Fedja van Huêt](https://cinepixo.com/people/fedja-van-huet) - [Lyne Renée](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyne-renee) - [Karina Smulders](https://cinepixo.com/people/karina-smulders) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/waiter-2006 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2370032); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.