De Aanslag (1986)
Genre: War / Drama
Duration: 141 minuten
Alternative title: The Assault
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Fons Rademakers
Stars: Derek de Lint, Monique van de Ven and Marc van Uchelen
IMDb score:
7,2 (3.470)
Releasedate: 6 February 1986
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De Aanslag plot
The Second World War is coming to an end. An NSB member is shot dead during an act of resistance. The dead body is placed in front of his house by the neighbors of 12-year-old Anton Steenwijk. In the ensuing act of revenge, the boy witnesses the death of his parents and brother. Anton will never let go of the traumatic event. Not even when he has become a doctor and marries a woman who is the spitting image of the woman he met on the deadly night in prison. The attack continues to run like a red thread through his life. During riots in Amsterdam in connection with the Hungarian uprising in 1956, Anton met the son of the murdered NSB member. Ten years later, he runs into the resistance fighter who committed the deed. The denouement of the past comes when he meets his old girl next door in 1983. She tells Anton why the body of the shot NSB member ended up in his front yard at the time. Has that come full circle and can Anton finally resign myself to what happened?
Actors and actresses
Anton Steenwijk
Young Anton Steenwijk
Saskia de Graaff
Cor Takes
German Officer
German Officer
Herring Seller
Fake Ploeg
Mrs. Beumer
Karin Korteweg
Reviews & comments
Fisico (moderator films)
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- 9534 messages
- 5190 votes
Interesting film based on the work of Harry Mulisch. Undervalued in the Netherlands at the time. The film was more successful abroad, with the Oscar for best foreign film in 1987 as the ultimate award.
The events of 1945 haunt Anton throughout his life. Not illogical of course that you carry such a trauma with you for the rest of your life. The film is not always equally interesting everywhere and halfway it collapses a bit. Still, the good acting keeps it going. Even though the dialogues sometimes came across as forced or theatrical. In terms of balance, not always so great given the large time jumps. Not always easy to film, of course.
The ending made up for a lot. Every act or action has its reasons. It's just a shame that there are often victims to regret for this.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 5742 messages
- 2289 votes
When I saw this film in the cinema at the time, I couldn't be completely enthusiastic about it, because of the wooden way in which some dialogues are presented (perhaps also due to the fact that Dutch film actors often wait neatly until the opponent has finished speaking, instead of starting to speak at the end of someone else's sentence as actors in foreign films or real people in a conversation often do), the use of an extremely theatrical voice-over that you would not expect from an experienced and capable screenwriter such as Gerard Soeteman , and Johnny Kraaijkamp's play, of which I can't decide whether I think he's acting well or artificially here. The first objection was characteristic of Dutch film at the time and I have only seen it overcome in recent years by a more natural way of acting, but the film as a whole has now made more of an impression, thanks to Derek de Lint's acting who, as is often the case, displays a certain passivity that allows the other characters to propel the plot, the epic span of time, and the awareness of the impact of the war's long tentacles. Not a perfect film, but an impressive one. (Funny to see the young Kees Hulst and Pierre Bokma among the students, and Monique van de Ven was so beautiful before she had her face remodeled completely unnecessarily. And has anyone recognized Akkemay's boyfriend with that punky hair at the end? Erik van 't Hoff aka Roberto Jacketti!)
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