Kenau (2014)

Directed by

Maarten Treurniet

Genre

war film

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

12

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

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How it feels

During the 1573 siege of Haarlem, a Dutch woman named Kenau leads a group of women to fight against Spanish forces. The film is a fictionalized account of her legendary story from the Eighty Years' War.

historicalwar-torndeterminedgrittysuspensefulsomberintenseaction-oriented

What happens

Kenau is a 2014 Dutch / Hungarian / Belgian action film directed by Maarten Treurniet. The film is inspired by the legendary story of Kenau who led an army of women in the siege of Haarlem by the Spaniards in 1573 during the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain. The filmmakers admitted that much of the story is fiction, such as the execution of her daughter, and the relationship with her youngest daughter. And in general there is not much known of the historical Kenau figure. In 1956, Haarlem archivist Gerda Kurtz demythologised the story of Kenau and her women's squabbles in his book Kenu Symonsdochter van Haerlem. According to Kurtz, it was unusual for Dutch women to fight in wartime. It seems more likely that Kenau played an active role in wall repairs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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