Elkerlyc (1975)

Elckerlyc or Elckerlijc (literally, everybody/everyman) is based on an old Dutch morality play. Everyman steals and enjoys life until he meets a sweet and simple girl. They fall in love, but she dies at the hands of an idiot. Everyman decides to avenge her death on his fellow men though he doesn’t know how exactly. A story about a man and his journey, but at the same time about the escape from death, that turns into a quest. The film uses as lot of symbolism and archetypical characters such as 'the fool', 'the girl' and 'the artist' (the creator). IMDB

Another uncannily beautiful, stunningly stubborn version of a medieval morality play. The miracle of Elckerlyc is that a film maker with this much flair is not scared of filming a vision instead of a standard drama or story. The donkey-carrying Elckerlyc, who plays god by killing other people, becomes in Stelling's sparkling film a Kafkaesque modern man. -

The Dutch Film Encyclopedia