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Als Twee Druppels Water (1963)

Drama | 119 minutes
3,30 275 votes

Genre: Drama / War

Duration: 119 minuten

Alternative titles: Like Two Drops of Water / The Spitting Image / The Dark Room of Damocles

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Fons Rademakers

Stars: Lex Schoorel, Nan Los and Van Doude

IMDb score: 6,9 (820)

Releasedate: 21 February 1963

Als Twee Druppels Water plot

During the Second World War, the cigar shopkeeper Ducker ends up in the resistance through the mysterious Lieutenant Dorbeck. He commits various attacks and considers himself a resistance hero. Dorbeck looks like Ducker like two drops of water. By doing exactly what Dorbeck instructs him to do, Ducker finally feels meaning in his empty existence.

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scorsese

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Nice film in which a cigar seller helps a man he thinks is in the resistance. This war film with a special history is based on a book by WF Hermans. The story gets more interesting, especially during the second half, when the identity of the main character is questioned. Furthermore, the film has not quite survived the test of time.

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Woland

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Pretty nice film adaptation of a classic from Dutch literature. The film starts a bit stiff, although it could also be me - the film initially seemed a bit outdated, partly because of the polygon-journal-like way of speaking that now comes across quite unnatural. In the beginning it still seems like a nice but somewhat standard war story, where Hennie Ducker rolls in a number of resistance actions and liquidations through a chance meeting with resistance fighter Dorbeck. Even then there is already some tension, but during the film it becomes more and more ambiguous, especially when he arrives in liberated Netherlands where he is mistaken for a traitor who has led to the death of dozens of resistance members, and where Dorbeck's existence is at all is not believed. That war atmosphere and the lack of obvious good and bad is done very nicely here. Not everything is equally successful in Als Twee Dropples Water - the acting is a bit mixed, the film sometimes jumps a bit, some scenes like Ducker in sister costume who is accepted by everyone as a woman are rather unbelievable, and I find the end scene a bit of a shame where the whole ambiguity about whether or not Dorbeck exists is dispelled. Nevertheless, not a bad film for Sunday afternoon.

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mrklm

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Excellent film adaptation of the exciting, intelligent book 'The Dark Room of Damocles' by Willem Frederik Hermans in which Ducker [Lex Schoorel], the colorless owner of a tobacco shop and amateur photographer in Voorschoten, comes face to face with spy Dorbeck during the Second World War [Lex Schoorel], who looks exactly like him. Ducker suddenly gets the chance to show himself from a heroic side when Dorbeck involves him in smuggling and liquidations in the service of the Allies. But Ducker's actions turn out to have a downside. Rademakers' fourth film earned him a nomination for a Golden Palm and is barely dated. Strong performances across the board and a brilliant dissection of the wafer-thin line between 'right' and 'wrong' in The War.

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