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.
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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
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