Release Date

18 Sep, 1992

Runtime

01:32: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

In the occupied Netherlands near the end of WWII, a young teenager, Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is sent to the Dutch countryside to avoid the war in Amsterdam. While living with his adopted family, Jeroen meets and becomes friends with a Canadian soldier named Walt Cook, who is stationed at the same town he is staying at. Joroen and Walt spend a lot of time playing around and eventually a romantic relationship develops between them. The boy’s sexual curiosity leads him to have a sexual experience with Walt, an encounter that is shown with some vague detail but without actually showing any nudity, even though sexual intimacy between the two of them is implied. Overall, the movie handles this difficult subject with an elegant style and feeling, without having the adult-child relationship overwhelm the viewer and thus allowing the movie to be seen as just a wartime relationship between two people that marks an important time in a young boy’s life.

Original Title

Voor een verloren soldaat

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Actors

Maarten Smit

Jeroen Krabbé

Andrew Kelley

Freark Smink

Elsje de Wijn

Derk-Jan Kroon

Wiendelt Hooijer

Iris Misset

Gineke de Jager

Tatum Dagelet

Marie-José Kouwenhoven

Valerie Valentine

William Sutton

Andrew Butling

Andrew Cassani

Moniek Kramer

Antoinette van Belle

Rients Gratama

Gees Linnebank

Steffen van der Kolk

Bonnie Doets

Crew

Roeland Kerbosch

Rudi van Dantzig

Roeland Kerbosch

Don Bloch

Nils Post

August Verschueren

Matthijs van Heijningen

Guurtje Buddenberg

Joop Stokkermans