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For a Lost Soldier
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For a Lost Soldier

1992-09-18 · 92 min · ★ 6.8

Drama · War

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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Directors
Roeland Kerbosch
Production companies
AVRO, Sigma Film Productions
Countries
Netherlands
Status
Released

Top Cast

Maarten SmitMaarten SmitJeroen Boman (young)
Jeroen KrabbéJeroen KrabbéJeroen Boman (adult)
Andrew KelleyWalt Cook
Freark SminkHait
Elsje de WijnElsje de WijnMem
Derk-Jan KroonJan
Wiendelt HooijerHenk
Iris MissetBonden
Gineke de JagerElly
Tatum DageletTatum DageletGertie
Marie-José KouwenhovenRenske
Valerie ValentineLaura
William SuttonChuck
Andrew ButlingVentriloquist
Andrew CassaniWinslow
Moniek KramerMoniek KramerJeroen's Mother
Antoinette van BelleSupervisor
Rients GratamaPastor
Gees LinnebankGees LinnebankSchoolmaster
Steffen van der KolkBallet Dancer

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