For a Lost Soldier

For a Lost Soldier Dutch title Voor een Verloren Soldaat is a 1992 Dutch film based upon the autobiographical novel of the same title by ballet dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig. It deals with the romantic sexual relationship between a 12yearold boy Van Dantzig and a Canadian soldier during the final months leading up to the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation during World War II.

Things change when the village is liberated by Canadian troops. Jeroen meets Walt Cook Andrew Kelley, a Canadian soldier in his early 20s, who befriends him. Jeroen revels in the attention the soldier showers on him, at first treating him like a little brother but eventually their relationship becomes sexual. They also engage in friendly, platonic activities, with Jeroen driving Walts jeep and cleaning his guns. Jeroens foster parents are aware of the closeness between boy and soldier, but it is unclear in the film whether they are aware of the sexual nature of the relationship.After a few more days, Walts troops are ordered to move and Walt leaves without saying goodbye to Jeroen. Jeroen hears about it from his foster sisters that they are leaving and he rushes to the soldiers home, but finds that they have already left. The film suggests that Walt attempts to tell Jeroens foster father the prior evening that the troops would be leaving, but gives up when the language barrier becomes obvious. Jeroen searches throughout town, unable to find any trace of Walt, and is further devastated when he returns home and sees that the shirt where he had stored a photo of Walt was on a clothesline in the rain, ruining the photo. Later that night, Jeroen is lying awake in his bed and notices Walts dog tag on a scarecrow that had posed as Walt in a photo with his foster family, and races outside to grab the tag. However, Jeroen touches pigeon wire on the scarecrow and badly hurts his hand. He collapses in tears, clearly heartbroken, and is taken inside by his foster dad. The next morning his foster father notices the sunglasses that Walt left on the wire while burning the scarecrow. After the war is over, he returns to his family back in Amsterdam, where he decides to go to America later in his life. ........

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