Karakter embarks on the ambitious project of creating a universal character, in the sense given to that term by Don Quichotte, Pickwick Le père Goriot, or Madame Bovary. One may credit the book for that, it does not reduce the quality of Van Diem's pictures which do create a balance between psychological realism and classic literature narrative devices (love / hate, abandoned mothers; ambitious young men). Dreverhaven is an archetype aimed at functioning as a deforming mirror of human soul: this only makes the film highly memorable.
