Two young police officers find themselves torn between collaboration and resistance as they navigate the Nazi-occupied Antwerp during World War II.
Acting
Aerts and Simoni's toxic codependency is devastatingly physical.
Direction
Mielants frames Antwerp's beauty as complicit witness to atrocity.
Cinematography
Rain-soaked cobblestones have never looked more morally bankrupt.
Director
Tim Mielants
Stef Aerts
Wilfried Wils
Matteo Simoni
Lode Metdepenningen
Annelore Crollet
Yvette Metdepenningen
Kevin Janssens
Vincent Vindevogel
Dirk Roofthooft
Felix Verschaffel
Dimitrij Schaad
Gregor Schnabel
Pierre Bokma
Chaim Litzke
Karina Smulders
Myriam
Marc Lauwrys
Gaston
Pit Bukowski
Feldgendarm
Valentijn Dhaenens
Gust
Jan Bijvoet
Police commissioner Jean
Koen De Bouw
Father Metdepenningen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Belgium's WWII collaboration remains taboo; this film sparked national debates about Flemish police complicity that official histories gloss over.
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