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6.7 1h 32m

For a Lost Soldier

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.

Top Cast

  • Maarten Smit

    Maarten Smit

    Jeroen Boman (young)

  • Jeroen Krabbé

    Jeroen Krabbé

    Jeroen Boman (adult)

  • Andrew Kelley

    Andrew Kelley

    Walt Cook

  • Freark Smink

    Freark Smink

    Hait

  • Elsje de Wijn

    Elsje de Wijn

    Mem

  • Derk-Jan Kroon

    Derk-Jan Kroon

    Jan

  • Wiendelt Hooijer

    Wiendelt Hooijer

    Henk

  • Iris Misset

    Iris Misset

    Bonden

  • Gineke de Jager

    Gineke de Jager

    Elly

Overview

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.

Rating

6.7 / 10
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