Though this first part of the film covers familiar territory, Kerbosch's understated direction renders a potentially hackneyed situation fresh. Little by little, however, Jeroen adjusts. The audience can feel Jeroen's desperation at being trapped in a picture-perfect family where everyone has red-cheeked country soul brims with strapping good health. He finds himself a city kid in the country, where everything, even the language, is different. Though his mother has sent him to Friesland for his own good, Jeroen feels abandoned by her. Smit and director Roeland Kerbosch do a good job of depicting Jeroen's multifold alienation. 12-year old Jeroen (Maarten Smit) goes to live with Hair (Feark Smink) and Mem (Elsje de Wijn). Jeroen's sentimental journey serves as the core of a lyrical and affecting film.ĭuring the Winter Hunger of 1944, children from the ravaged west of the country were taken in by farmers and fishermen in the northern province of Friesland, where food was plentiful and the German presence slight. However, the death of his wartime foster father forces Jeroen to confront what happened to him as a child during the liberation. At the beginning of the new Dutch film "For a Lost Soldier," Jeroen Boman (Jeroen Krabbe'), a famous choreographer, is having trouble with the creation of his new ballet based on the American liberation of the Netherlands.
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