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For a Lost Soldier

6.8(81)19921h 32m2

In the occupied Netherlands near the end of WWII, a young teenager, Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is sent to the Dutch countryside to avoid the war in Amsterdam. While living with his adopted family, Jeroen meets and becomes friends with a Canadian soldier named Walt Cook, who is stationed at the same town he is staying at. Joroen and Walt spend a lot of time playing around and eventually a romantic relationship develops between them. The boy’s sexual curiosity leads him to have a sexual experience with Walt, an encounter that is shown with some vague detail but without actually showing any nudity, even though sexual intimacy between the two of them is implied. Overall, the movie handles this difficult subject with an elegant style and feeling, without having the adult-child relationship overwhelm the viewer and thus allowing the movie to be seen as just a wartime relationship between two people that marks an important time in a young boy’s life.

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Language
Dutch
  • first time
  • sexual identity
  • dance performance
  • world war ii
  • biography
  • soldier
  • based on memoir or autobiography
  • lgbt
  • older man younger man relationship
  • thoughtful
  • children in wartime
  • loving

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Netherlands

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  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical (limited)18AToronto International Film Festival18 Sept 1992
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Premiere22 May 1992

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For a Lost Soldier was released on 18 September 1992.

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    kinrich30

    9/8/2026

    4/10

    spoiler alert: This was set in 2 times, one in 1945 when a boy (maybe about 10) is fostered in a safer area during the war. As the war end, soldiers come and liberate the town. One soldier (maybe 20) takes an interest in the boy and starts to groom him and it goes further and there's some really cringey stuff going on. I think the only thing the soldier lost were his morals. Then he leaves and the boy gets no closure…

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