Is For a Lost Soldier sad?

Somewhat. More sad than 70% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is For a Lost Soldier easy watching?

Somewhat. More comforting than 67% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is For a Lost Soldier scary?

Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is For a Lost Soldier violent?

Not especially. Less violent than 64% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Does For a Lost Soldier end with hope?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

For a Lost Soldier

Name: For a Lost Soldier
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1992
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Maarten Smit, Jeroen Krabbé, Andrew Kelley, Freark Smink, Elsje de Wijn

Directed by Roeland Kerbosch

Produced by AVRO, Sigma Film Productions

199292 min6.7 / 10

A tender, introspective wartime coming-of-age story that treats a formative romantic and sexual relationship between a teenager and an older soldier with emotional honesty and restraint.

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.

Questions people ask

Is For a Lost Soldier sad? Somewhat. More sad than 70% of films.
Is For a Lost Soldier easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 67% of films.
Is For a Lost Soldier scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.
Is For a Lost Soldier violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.
Does For a Lost Soldier end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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