At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.
Acting
Derek de Lint's haunted restraint carries decades of unspoken pain.
Writing
Harry Mulisch's novel adapted with surgical precision.
Direction
Rademakers builds dread through what characters refuse to say.
Director
Fons Rademakers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film became a flashpoint in Dutch memory politics, forcing a nation to confront which resistance narratives it had sanitized.
Harry Mulisch's original novel invented the 'assault' structure—three encounters across decades—which Rademakers fought to keep intact against producers who wanted linear chronology.
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