Main Cast :
Frederick de Groot - Johan Schultz
Sylvia Kristel - Miep Algera
Hein Boele - Cohen
Renée Soutendijk - Marie Bovenkamp
Rutger Hauer - August Schultz
Bernard Droog - Poerstamper
Femke Boersma - Wife of Poerstamper
Coen Flink - Hammer
Geert de Jong - Mies Evertse
Pieter Lutz - Mertens

Screenplay:
Wim Verstappen from the book by Simon Vestdijk

Plot:
The film talks about a small Dutch town during the Nazi Occupation.
It's a story of people who have no experience at all in doing something against their Government, and of their lives which are deeply changed by those events.
There is an eleven minute scene showing a group of men discussing about various methods of killing a collaborator, only to discover in the end that he is the wrong person.
All conflicts and contradictions come to the surface, while the population is trying to rebel against the invaders and their supporters.

Notes:
Rutger appears in the final scenes of this movie as the SSer August Schultz, in a sort of cameo role.

Photo on “De Telegraaf” on January 11, 1978

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