Movie: For a Lost Soldier

Top 10 Billed 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

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1992-09-18

  • Average

    6.7

  • Rating:

    3.4 starts
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