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Soldier of Orange aka Survival Run

Soldier of Orange - 1979

This is quite simply the ONLY film to portray the Dutch experience in WWII. It tackles the difficult premise that not all Dutchmen and women were opposed to the Nazis and that some either embraced Hitler or just kept their heads down and got on with life.

The film charts the effects of the outbreak of WWII on 6 privileged university friends. At the beginning of the war it provides a way for young boisterous men to let off steam. Only as it progresses do the young men have to decide their role in it. One (one of the two survivors) simply studies and does not get involved. Jean (the Jew) immediately gets involved in the resistance and is executed. Guus the playboy is in it for the girls and adventure. Robby is the idealist, but with a Jewish girlfriend to protect ends of becoming a traitor. Nico is the practical intellectual who sees the war as his way to prove his efficiency. But the two real opposites are Eric and Alex. Eric is the blond haired hero who flies in the RAF and is involved in spying and heroics. Alex is the Waffen SS volunteer who is the alter-ego of Eric, though on opposing sides they come face to face twice in the war and disregard their national loyalties in respect of their friendship.

It’s not a real action film, though when it does break out it is brilliantly shot and staged. Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbe are great as Eric and Guus. Edward Fox who I am normally a fan of, sleepwalks his cameo and Susan Penhaligon is there simply as a bit of 1970s tit to pretty-up the non-action scenes. She frankly is all that spoils an otherwise wonderful film.

2/12/2005, 3:01 am

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