The Sunday Child (1992)
- Original title
- De zondagsjongen
- Directed by
- Pieter Verhoeff
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- Netherlands
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Dutch man travels to Germany in 1988 and encounters anti-German sentiment from football fans. This triggers memories of his childhood in 1944 as a boy with a German father.
melancholicreflectivetensenostalgicbittersweetintrospectivesomberpoignant
What happens
The Sunday Child or De Zondagsjongen is a 1992 Dutch film directed by Pieter Verhoeff. Filming of Cherry Duyns' debut novel about the life of one in 1944 from a German-born Dutch boy. It is June 1988. On the way to his family in Germany is confronted the man in the train with football fans who will attend the match Netherlands-Germany for the European football championships. The revival of anti-German sentiments reminiscent of his youth. Sunday is a boy with flashbacks larded film about loyalty, love, betrayal and liberation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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