Winter in Wartime (2008)

Original title

Oorlogswinter

Directed by

Martin Koolhoven

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 203 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy in Nazi-occupied Netherlands gets drawn into the resistance when he helps hide a British soldier. He faces moral choices and danger as the war closes in around his family.

tensemoodysuspensefulsombergrittyslow-burnchild's perspective

What happens

Winter in Wartime (Dutch: Oorlogswinter) is a 2008 Dutch war film directed by Martin Koolhoven, from a script he co-wrote with Mieke de Jong and Paul Jan Nelissen, based on Jan Terlouw's eponymous 1972 novel. The film was hugely successful in the Netherlands, out-grossing competing films like Twilight and The Dark Knight. Additionally, it was the highest-grossing film in the Netherlands during Christmas 2008 and the first weeks of 2009. The film was chosen by the Dutch Critics as the best Dutch film of 2008; it won the PZC Audience Award (best movie based on a novel), three Rembrandt Awards, and three Golden Calf awards. Also, it was chosen as Best Film by the Young Jury (14–18 years) at the Rome Film Festival and was shortlisted (with eight other movies) at the Academy Awards, in the section Best Foreign Language Film. It was released in the United States by Sony Pictures Classics on 18 March 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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