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For a Lost Soldier

For a Lost Soldier

Original Title: Voor een verloren soldaat

19921h 32m
DramaWar

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Released

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1992

Runtime

1h 32m

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Storyline

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.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 32m
Sep 18, 1992
Languages
DutchEnglishGerman
Director
Roeland Kerbosch
Production
AVRO
AVRO
Sigma Film Productions
Sigma Film Productions
Production Countries
Netherlands

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