"The greatest concealed act of resistance"
In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.
Barry Atsma
Walraven van Hall
Jacob Derwig
Gijsbert van Hall
Pierre Bokma
Meinoud Rost van Tonningen
Götz Schubert
Friedrich Viebahn
Fockeline Ouwerkerk
Tilly van Hall
Raymond Thiry
Van den Berg
Jaap Spijkers
Cornelis Ritter
Tjebbo Gerritsma
Henri Termeulen
Peter Jordan
Herbert Oelschlägel
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