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For a Lost Soldier

Name: For a Lost Soldier
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1992-09-18
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 6.722

★ 6,7 /10 (79 Votes)

1992 NL 92 min

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.

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Release date

18/09/1992

Votes

Popularity

1.8

Genres

Drama War

Status

Released

Original title

Voor een verloren soldaat

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Runtime

92 min

Maarten Smit

Jeroen Boman (young)

Jeroen Krabbé

Jeroen Boman (adult)

For a Lost Soldier

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