For a Lost Soldier
For a Lost Soldier

Movie·1992·1h 32m

For a Lost Soldier

Country

Netherlands

Language

Dutch

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The Story

Original title: Voor een verloren soldaat

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.

Written By

Don Bloch

Producer

Guurtje Buddenberg, Matthijs van Heijningen

Cinematography

Nils Post

Editor

August Verschueren

Themes

first timesexual identitydance performanceworld war iibiographysoldierbased on memoir or autobiographylgbtolder man younger man relationshipthoughtfulchildren in wartimeloving

Production House

AVRO
Sigma Film Productions

Audience Score

67%

77 votes

Skip11%
Timepass25%
Go for it38%
Perfection26%

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Cast

Maarten Smit

Maarten Smit

Jeroen Boman (young)

Jeroen Krabbé

Jeroen Krabbé

Jeroen Boman (adult)

Andrew Kelley

Walt Cook

Freark Smink

Hait

Elsje de Wijn

Elsje de Wijn

Mem

Derk-Jan Kroon

Jan

Wiendelt Hooijer

Henk

Iris Misset

Bonden

Gineke de Jager

Elly

Tatum Dagelet

Tatum Dagelet

Gertie

Marie-José Kouwenhoven

Renske

Valerie Valentine

Laura

William Sutton

Chuck

Andrew Butling

Ventriloquist

Andrew Cassani

Winslow

Moniek Kramer

Moniek Kramer

Jeroen's Mother

Antoinette van Belle

Supervisor

Rients Gratama

Pastor

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Crew

Roeland Kerbosch

Director, Writer

Don Bloch

Writer

Nils Post

Director of Photography

August Verschueren

Editor

Guurtje Buddenberg

Executive Producer

Matthijs van Heijningen

Matthijs van Heijningen

Producer

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