- For a Lost Soldier
Infobox Film
name = For a Lost Soldier
"Voor een verloren soldaat
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caption = "For a Lost Soldier" book cover
director =Roeland Kerbosch
producer =Guurtje Buddenberg Matthijs van Heijningen
writer =Don Bloch
Roeland KerboschRudi van Dantzig "(novel)"
starring =Maarten Smit Jeroen Krabbé Andrew Kelley Freark Smink Elsje de Wijn
music =Joop Stokkermans
cinematography =Nils Post
editing =August Verschueren
distributor =Malofilm Distribution Concorde Pictures
released =22 May 1992
runtime = 92 mins
country =Netherlands
language = Dutch
English
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imdb_id = 0108504For a Lost Soldier ("Voor Een Verloren Soldaat") is a 1992 Dutch movie based upon the autobiographical novel of the same title by
ballet dancer andchoreographer Rudi van Dantzig . It deals with the sexual relationship between a 12-year-old boy (Dantzig) and a Canadian soldier during the final months ofWorld War II .Plot summary
Jeroen (
Jeroen Krabbé ) reminisces about the time in 1944 when he (Maarten Smit) and other children were sent to the countryside by their parents to escape the war. The city suffers from food shortages, with more food available in the country. He stays with aneel fisher's family, but despite the abundance of food, he is plagued by homesickness.Things change when the village is liberated by Canadian troops. Jeroen meets Walt (Andrew Kelley), a Canadian soldier in his early twenties, who befriends him. Jeroen revels in the attention the soldier showers on him, and eventually their relationship becomes sexual. His foster parents notice the nature of the relationship between Jeroen and the soldier, but tolerate it.
After a few more days, Walt's troop are ordered to move and Walt leaves without saying goodbye to Jeroen. Jeroen is heartbroken, having only a photo to remind him of the soldier. After the war is over, he returns to his family back in
Amsterdam , where he decides to go to America later in his life.The film ends with grown-up Jeroen affectionately recalling the story and trying to express it as a ballet dance.
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