Akkers van Margraten (2010)

Name: Akkers van Margraten
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-08-12T17:48:06+02:00
Rating: 3.07

Documentary | 70 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 70 minuten

Alternative title: Bitter Harvest

Country: Netherlands / United States

Directed by: Albert Elings and Eugenie Jansen

Releasedate: 16 September 2010

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Akkers van Margraten plot

From the high plateau on the Rijksweg in Margraten, where the wind always seems to blow, you have a beautiful view over the rolling hills of South Limburg. This is the most fertile farmland in the area. When the first American soldiers are buried here at the end of 1944, to the surprise of the landowners, no one foresees that a year and a half later twenty thousand crosses and stars of David will be buried in the mud. More than thirty shards of memory, found in the heads of Margraten residents, local residents, a German prisoner of war, American road builders, gravediggers and soldiers of the American grave service, tell about the impact of these events. The most striking, most beautiful, moving or most telling memories form the basis for a mosaic of this absurd episode in which the living had to deal with an unimaginable number of dead.