For a Lost Soldier

For a Lost Soldier

1992
1h 32m
6.7

6.7/10

76 votes • View on IMDb
Drama
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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Language: NL

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Production Information

Production Companies
AVRO Sigma Film Productions
Production Countries
Netherlands
Spoken Languages
Dutch English German

Keywords

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Quick Facts

Original Title Voor een verloren soldaat
Release Date September 18, 1992
Status Released
Language NL
IMDb ID tt0108504

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

Tatum Dagelet
Tatum Dagelet

Gertie

Marie-José Kouwenhoven
Marie-José Kouwenhoven

Renske

Valerie Valentine
Valerie Valentine

Laura

Key Crew

Roeland Kerbosch
Director
Roeland Kerbosch
Writer
Don Bloch
Writer
Matthijs van Heijningen
Producer
Guurtje Buddenberg
Executive Producer