CinemaOSMovie · 1992 · 1h 32m

For a Lost Soldier

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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.

Directed byRoeland Kerbosch

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 32m
Language
NL
Released
September 18, 1992
Studios
AVROSigma Film Productions

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Maarten Smit

Maarten Smit

Jeroen Boman (young)

Jeroen Krabbé

Jeroen Krabbé

Jeroen Boman (adult)

Andrew Kelley

Walt Cook

Freark Smink

Hait

Elsje de Wijn

Elsje de Wijn

Mem

Derk-Jan Kroon

Jan

Wiendelt Hooijer

Henk

Iris Misset

Bonden

Gineke de Jager

Elly

Tatum Dagelet

Tatum Dagelet

Gertie

Creative team
Directed by
Roeland Kerbosch
Written by
Roeland Kerbosch
Don Bloch
Produced by
Matthijs van Heijningen
Matthijs van Heijningen

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