Character (film)
Character (Dutch: Karakter) is a 1997 Dutch-Belgian drama film, based on the best-selling novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk and directed by Mike van Diem.The obvious suspect is Jacob Willem Katadreuffe, an ambitious young lawyer who worked his way up from poverty, always managing to overcome Dreverhaven's personal attacks against him.He manages to secure this job, even though most of his education is derived from reading an incomplete English-language encyclopedia that he found as a boy in his mother's apartment; studying this set, he managed to teach himself English, which turns out to be a valuable talent in the eyes of his employers.After paying back the cigar-store debt, Katadreuffe immediately seeks a second loan from Dreverhaven, so that he can finance his education and legal studies and, ultimately, take and pass the bar examination.Despite the bailiff's efforts to hinder his son, Katadreuffe passes his bar examination and qualifies as a lawyer.