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
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 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.
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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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