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The Rotterdam Bombing (2012)

The Rotterdam Bombing poster
Original title
Het Bombardement
Directed by
Ate de Jong
Genre
drama film
Country
Netherlands
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
12
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 38 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young boxer falls in love with a woman who is already engaged to someone else. The story takes place in Rotterdam just before the city is bombed during World War Two.

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What happens

Het Bombardement (Dutch for The Bombing) is a 2012 Dutch war drama film directed by Ate de Jong and produced by San Fu Maltha, starring Jan Smit and Roos van Erkel. The story line begins shortly before the Bombing of Rotterdam and concerns the impossible love between a young boxer (Smit) and an engaged girl (Van Erkel) as the Second World War reaches the Netherlands. The film was critically panned following its release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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