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For a Lost Soldier(1992)
Status: Released
Date: 1992-09-18
67%
77 Votes
Time: 1h 32m
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.
Languages: Dutch, English, German.
Countries:
Netherlands
ProductionCompanies: 
Sigma Film Productions
Movie: For a Lost Soldier
Top 10 Billed Cast
Maarten Smit
Jeroen Boman (young)
Jeroen Krabbé
Jeroen Boman (adult)
Elsje de Wijn
Mem
Tatum Dagelet
Gertie
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