Winter in Wartime
Enjoyable, well acted and emotionally engaging wartime coming-of-age drama with striking photography and strong performances.
Winter in Wartime
Nazi-occupied Holland, 1945. In a snow-covered village, thirteen-year-old Michiel is drawn into the Resistance when he aids a wounded British paratrooper. Michiel’s boyish sense of defiance and adventure soon turns to danger and desperation, as he is forced to act without knowing whom to trust among the adults and townspeople around him. Wartime’s harsh reality encroaches on childhood innocence as Michiel confronts good and evil, courage and duplicity, and his own burden of responsibility. The film, based on the award-winning semi-autobiographical novel Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter, 1972) by Dutch author Jan Terlouw, was shortlisted for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
“Enjoyable, well acted and emotionally engaging wartime coming-of-age drama with striking photography and strong performances.” (Matthew Turner, View London)
“Enjoyable, well acted and emotionally engaging wartime coming-of-age drama with striking photography and strong performances.” (Matthew Turner, View London)
Genre
Drama
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Runtime
105
Language
Dutch
Director
Martin Koolhoven
Cast
Martijn Lakemeier,
Jamie Campbell Bower
FEATURED REVIEW
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Carefully written, sensitively directed and beautifully acted, Winter in Wartime is a poignant film by Dutch director Martin Koolhoven about the courageous, terrifying and life-altering experiences of an adventurous 13-year-old boy growing up in German-occupied Holland during World War II. Part ...
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Royal 3.18.11 - 3.31.11
Town Center 5 3.25.11 - 3.31.11
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