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Nov 16, 2020 · De wegen van een Nederlandse jongen die voor de Duitsers vecht, een verdwaalde Engelse gliderpiloot en een tegen wil en dank in het verzet betrokken Zeeuws meisje kruisen elkaar. Ze worden ...
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Mar 2, 2024 · "Forgotten Battle" (2020) plunges viewers into the visceral and unforgiving reality of war. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the film delivers a sta...
Sep 13, 2021 · November 1944. In Zeeland vechten duizenden geallieerde soldaten tegen het Duitse leger. Drie jonge levens raken onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden. Een Nede...
Oct 15, 2021 · The Forgotten Battle: Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.. With Gijs Blom, Jamie Flatters, Susan Radder, Jan Bijvoet. 1944, the Second World War. A British glider pilot, a Dutch boy fighting on the German side and a Dutch female resistance member all end up involved in the Battle of the Schelde.
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In September 1944, Teuntje Visser works in the office of a collaborationist mayor in German-occupied Zeeland as the Allies approach from Belgium. While she and her father, a doctor, choose to be neutral, her younger brother Dirk is a member of the Dutch Resistancewho is arrested for throwing a rock at a German convoy and is tortured into revealing ...
Development
Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. directed the film. Alain de Levita, Paula van der Oest, and Mark van Eeuwen served as producers. EO, NPO, Belgian company Caviar joined the project as co-producers. The film received funding from CoBo, Netherlands Film Fund, Flemish Audiovisual Fund, and the Belgian Tax Shelter. It was announced in November 2019 that Netflix would also co-produce, making The Forgotten Battlethe company's first Dutch film.
Filming
With a budget of around €14 million, it is the second most expensive Dutch film made after Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek) in 2006. It was shot primarily in Dutch and English with some German. Principal photography began in Lithuania where a large part of the movie was filmed and continued in the Netherlands and in Belgium. Locations in the Netherlands included Middelburg, Zeeland and the port city of Vlissingen. Some parts of the battle were filmed in and near Limburg, Belgium and in the Sint-...
A first trailer was released in November 2020. The film had a premiere in Vlissingen on 14 December 2020. It was originally scheduled for a theatrical release in the Netherlands a few days later, but it was postponed to 5 June 2021. EO broadcast the film on 24 December 2021 and it was streaming on Netflix as of 15 October 2021.The movie ranked in N...
Rotten Tomatoesreported an approval rating of 100% based on 8 reviews with an average score of 8.1/10. One reviewer said "Do not skip this one! [...]The Forgotten Battle is a tightly wound war film that works"; adding the film covers a World War II conflict "that did not make it to the mainstream conversation". The "Decider" review recommends the f...
- De Slag om de Schelde
- Alain de Levita, Paula van der Oest, Mark van Eeuwen
De Slag om de Schelde | Officiële Netflix-website. In de Tweede Wereldoorlog raken de levens van een Britse zweefpiloot, een nazisoldaat en een verzetsstrijdster bij de Slag om de Schelde noodlottig met elkaar verweven. Kijk trailers en meer.
