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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.
Where to watch For a Lost Soldier
For a Lost Soldier is streaming in the US on Kanopy.
It is also available to rent or buy from Fandango At Home.
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
Details
- Director
- Roeland Kerbosch
- Released
- September 18, 1992
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Studio
- AVRO and Sigma Film Productions
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.8 / 10 from 81 votes
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