![]() ![]() This hearty family is as earthy as it is religious devoutness is a matter of spirituality rather than moralizing or passing judgment. The father Hait (Feark Smink), a fisherman, a strong, loving man, and his wife had requested a girl, as a companion for their daughter, the youngest of their three children, but the couple are as forthright in making him welcome as they are honest in expressing their initial disappointment. Jeroen is lucky in the family he has been assigned. In the so-called Winter of Hunger in 1944, 12-year-old Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is sent by his parents along with a group of other Amsterdam children to foster homes in Friesland because there is still an abundance of food along the North Sea. (As a period piece, the film boasts a few anachronisms “Sha-boom,” for example, is a song of the ‘50s, not ‘40s.) Finally, though, Kerbosch undercuts the chances he takes with a frustrating vagueness and evasiveness. In its first half hour, Kerbosch’s film is altogether typical, but then it ventures into exceedingly risky territory with daring and taste. ![]() Writer-director Roeland Kerbosch and his adapter Don Bloch have brought choreographer Rudi van Dantzig’s autobiographical novel to the screen with the warmth, intimacy and sensitivity we have come to expect in subtitled movies. The Dutch film “For a Lost Soldier” (Sunset 5) resembles many other European pictures in its coming-of-age theme set against World War II. ![]()
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