For a Lost Soldier

About 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.

Roeland Kerbosch's For a Lost Soldier is a 1992 war film. Its themes are soldier, empathetic, thoughtful, and intimate.

Maarten Smit appears as Jeroen Boman (young), Jeroen Krabbé as Jeroen Boman (adult), Andrew Kelley as Walt Cook, and Freark Smink as Hait. At 92 minutes long, it arrived in September 1992.

The screenplay is by Don Bloch and Roeland Kerbosch. It comes from AVRO and Sigma Film Productions.

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