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Movie - 92mins
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.
Cast:
Cathelijne
Lussen
Loes
Muizeveld
Kathelijne
van
Yuri
Huyg
Marcel
Vogelaar
Maarten
Smit
Jeroen
Krabbé
Andrew
Kelley
Freark
Smink
Elsje
de
Derk-Jan
Kroon
Wiendelt
Hooijer
Iris
Misset
Gineke
de
Tatum
Dagelet
Marie-José
Kouwenhoven
Valerie
Valentine
William
Sutton
Andrew
Butling
Andrew
Cassani
Moniek
Kramer
Antoinette
van
Rients
Gratama
Gees
Linnebank
Steffen
van
Bonnie
Doets
Cathelijne
Lussen
Loes
Muizeveld
Kathelijne
van
Yuri
Huyg
Marcel
Vogelaar
Maarten
Smit
Jeroen
Krabbé
Andrew
Kelley
Freark
Smink
Elsje
de