Saturday, September 3, 2011

Winter in Wartime

Dutch writer and director Martin Koolhoven delivered a riveting thriller with this coming of age drama set at the end of WW II. A teenager who sees his father as a Nazi collaborator becomes involved with the resistance when he finds a wound British soldier which puts him and his family in danger. Based on the novel by Jan Terlouw, Koolhoven and his co-writers managed to deliver a breathtaking thriller with fully developed complex characters conflicted at a dangerous time during the war. The talented cast includes Martijn Lakemeier, Jamie Campbell Bower and Yorick van Wageningen amongst others. 1001 Films' coverage of films on DVD.

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