Voor een verloren soldaat (1992)
Другие названия:
For a Lost Soldier
В честь пропавшего солдата (Russia)
Roeland Kerbosch
Drama
Country: Netherlands
IMDb: 0108504
Starring: Maarten Smit, Jeroen Krabbe, Andrew Kelley, Freark Smink, Elsje de Wijn
Maarten Smit Jeroen Boman
Jeroen Krabbe Jeroen Boman (adult)
Andrew Kelley Walt Cook
Freark Smink Hait
Elsje de Wijn Mem
Derk-Jan Kroon Jan
Wiendelt Hooijer Henk
Iris Misset Bonden
Gineke de Jager Elly
Tatum Dagelet Gertie
Marie-Jose Kouwenhoven Renske
Valerie Valentine Laura
William Sutton Chuck
Andrew Butling Buikspreker
Andrew Cassani Winslow
A controversial movie, "For a Lost Soldier" tells of Jeroen's first love at age 12. It is told in flashbacks to WWII, where we meet Jeroen's family. As they try to get on with day to day living during war time, Jeroen falls for a captain in the army. The story is told in a very mature matter, and the sexual scene is actually off screen. The controversy is the relationship between the boy and the man. One of the problems of the movie is we really don't find out what is going through an adult man's mind about having a relationship with a 12 year old boy. He is in his late twenties and has a promising career in the military, but if the affair is discovered, would lose all and possibly serve a long prison sentence.
Maarten gives an excellent and brave performance here. The other actors are also very good. I would have given it a higher mark if it dealt more with the adult's thinking, but it is about a man's memories as a boy.
Recommended, but the sexual themes may be to much for some viewers.
Summary:
A twelve year old boy who escapes from the tyranny of Nazism
in the Netherlands finds himself be taken care of by s sympathetic family.
The boy has gay tendencies but is not aware of them until he meets a Canadian soldier who is gay.
They become friends despite a considerable age difference and the soldier
uses the boy sexually while the boy, in turn, falls in love with the soldier.
When the soldier leaves abruptly, the boy?s heart is broken. T
he pain of that separation haunts the kid through his adult life and as the movie
attempts to show the healing of the pain, we find how sympathetic we are.
Содержание:
1944 год, Голландия. 12-летний Йерун, как и многие другие дети, отправлен подальше из Амстердама, где голодно и опасно. Мальчику повезло: он попадает в семью рыбака где его приняли как родного. После немецкой оккупации приходят канадские солдаты - освободители. Один из них задерживается, между ним и мальчиком возникает взаимное притяжение, перерастающее в нечто большее...