De Storm (2009)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 96 minuten
Alternative title: The Storm
Country:
Netherlands / Belgium
Directed by: Ben Sombogaart
Stars: Sylvia Hoeks, Barry Atsma and Dirk Roofthooft
IMDb score:
6,2 (3.274)
Releasedate: 17 September 2009
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De Storm plot
De Storm is about Julia (Sylvia Hoeks), an 18-year-old farmer's daughter from Zeeland, who becomes pregnant by her boyfriend Koos, a fisherman's boy. Koos is so shocked by this news that he leaves with the Noorderzon. Julia finds herself all alone in a hostile village: the pregnancy and childbirth are first condemned and later ignored by her family and fellow villagers. On the night of January 31, 1953, during a terrible February storm, the dikes in Zeeland broke in more than a hundred places and the farm was swallowed up by a deluge. Julia ends up in the water with her son and - against her will - is rescued by the young Marine Lieutenant Commander Aldo (Barry Atsma), leaving her baby in the water. She is inconsolable, shrouds in silence and refuses to speak to her hated savior. Cautiously, Aldo tries to get in touch with the young woman, piece by piece unraveling her background, and finally decides to help her find her son.
Actors and actresses
Julia
Aldo Hendriks
Julia's father
Julia's mother
Koos
Krina
Guus
Stientje
Felix
Emma
Reviews & comments
Brandt
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- 364 messages
- 293 votes
The makers didn't dare to call this film 'the disaster', because that's what it is, so it became the storm. That is again a euphemism. It's all wrong from the start. Eva Hoeks is already clear in the first scene, I don't even want to talk about Barry Atsma here. A dike breach is filmed as a tsunami. Then you as a viewer are afraid that it won't work out and it won't. The storm is a disaster of a film, made at least as lousy as Nova Zembla, another film trash in the cold. And now that Elfstedentocht dama also comes to mind. As soon as hardships arise, things go wrong in Dutch cinema. What is that?
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Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8442 votes
A story that does try to portray the drama and the ensuing suffering, but this memorable catastrophic event deserved a better subdued rendering.
It is of course not a documentary, but the story that is told occasionally falls through the basket and I would not award many prizes to the acting in general.
Not entirely without merit, though, because it does cite the chaos, what human lesser behavior in emergency situations and the improvised assistance.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
A Sombogaart is like a Jan Verheyen in Belgium I think. Well-known and quite a few films on the record. Usually leaning towards the commercially popular side, but ideal fodder for film critics. Well, filming traditional children's book classics is a daring activity. That usually leads to nothing and that sticks with me. Still, referring to the disastrous flood in 1953, I definitely wanted to give The storm a chance.
The storm and the looming waves, the imminent danger, I thought it looked pretty good. In less than half an hour we are through and we see more misery afterwards when the water level has reached its limits. I also thought the featured story of the young mother Julia was quite good and well interwoven with the disaster. It is striking how negatively she was approached by the villagers. She seemed almost hated in this still very religious community. And Julia's father, well, he was between two fires, indecisive as he was. Nice role by Dirk Roofthooft by the way.
Nice unfolding of the missing baby, the kidnapping of her son. It's just a shame that the grim ending throws a spanner in the works. Quite made, rather easy...
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