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Content: 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.

Countries:

Netherlands

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

92 minutes

Year:

1992

Directors:

Roeland Kerbosch

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Production companies:

AVRO,

Sigma Film Productions

Actors:

Jeroen Boman (young)

Jeroen Boman (adult)

Walt Cook

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Crews:

Director

Novel

Writer

Writer

Director of Photography