For a Lost Soldier

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.

6.697

92 min

Cast

Maarten Smit

as Jeroen Boman (young)

Jeroen Krabbé

as Jeroen Boman (adult)

Andrew Kelley

as Walt Cook

Freark Smink

as Hait

Elsje de Wijn

as Mem

Derk-Jan Kroon

as Jan

Wiendelt Hooijer

as Henk

Iris Misset

as Bonden

Gineke de Jager

as Elly

Tatum Dagelet

as Gertie

Marie-José Kouwenhoven

as Renske

Valerie Valentine

as Laura

William Sutton

as Chuck

Andrew Butling

as Ventriloquist

Andrew Cassani

as Winslow

Moniek Kramer

as Jeroen's Mother

Antoinette van Belle

as Supervisor

Rients Gratama

as Pastor

Gees Linnebank

as Schoolmaster

Steffen van der Kolk

as Ballet Dancer

Bonnie Doets

as Ballet Dancer

Cathelijne Lussen

as Ballet Dancer

Loes Muizeveld

as Ballet Dancer

Kathelijne van der Zwaan

as Ballet Dancer

Yuri Huyg

as Ballet Dancer

Marcel Vogelaar

as Ballet Dancer

Director

Roeland Kerbosch