Gaston's War (1997)

Directed by

Robbe De Hert

Genre

drama film, war film, romance film

Country

Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Spain

Runtime

2h

Rating

4.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Decades after World War II, a former Belgian resistance fighter tries to find out who betrayed his group to the Nazis. He sifts through old memories and confronts people from his past in search of the truth.

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What happens

Gaston's War is a Belgian 1997 drama film directed by Robbe De Hert and starring Werner De Smedt, Mapi Galán and Peter Firth. Based on a novel by Allan Mayer, the film is set many decades after the Second World War, and tells the story of a Belgian resistance fighter, Gaston Vandermeerssche, who tries to discover who betrayed them to the Nazis. The movie was nominated for a Golden Goblet at the 1997 Shanghai International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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