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Rudi van Dantzig, Translated by Arnold J. Van Dantzig died in 2012, aged 78 from lymphoma and male breast cancer. For a Lost Soldier by Rudi van Dantzig, 9780854492374, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Van Dantzig also published a biography of the Dutch artist and resistance fighter Willem Arondeus in 2003. In 1992 a Dutch movie with the same title (English version: For a Lost Soldier) was based on it. The book became a great success and received several awards an English translation, For a Lost Soldier, was published in 1991. In 1986 he wrote an autobiographical novel, Voor een verloren soldaat, about his homosexuality and sexual relationship while a young boy with a Canadian soldier.

After Sonia Gaskell (left in 1969) and his other colleague left the Dutch National Ballet in 1971, he was the only artistic leader until 1991.įor a Lost Soldier From 1965 until his death he was the artistic co-leader of the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam. It handles some extremely risky subject matter with grace and charm, and deserves to be seen.Rudi van Dantzig (4 August 1933 – 19 January 2012) was a Dutch choreographer, ballet dancer and writer. Hauntingly beautiful in its depiction of the somnolent Dutch countryside and its people during the war, this is one of those films almost guaranteed to slip through the cracks. Kerbosch has framed the film with scenes of an adult Jeroen (now a ballet choreographer in Amsterdam) discussing the situation with his ghostlike, younger self, and as contrived as this may sound, it works. It's this 90-degree turn, three-quarters of the way through the film, that may leave some viewers either shocked or confused, but taken in context, it's the only obvious avenue for these oddly mismatched lovers. For a Lost Soldier is Rudi van Dantzig's account of life as an eleven-year-old boy enduring World War II in The Netherlands. Sensing a kinship in the boy, Walt begins what can only be called a tentative flirtation, which eventually ends with the boy's initiation into his first sexual encounter.

One young soldier, the handsome, melancholy Walt (Kelley), develops a close relationship with Jeroen, teaching him to dance the lindy and palling around with him at every opportunity. Before long, the area is liberated by a group of Canadian soldiers who then take up a brief residence in the local hotel before pulling out. Young Jeroen (Smit) is placed in the care of one such family, ably headed by God-fearing patriarch Hait (Smink). In the pre-liberation Amsterdam of 1944, parents are sending their children off to the country to live with relatives, hoping that the farms are safer. This gorgeous, strange film (based on the novel by Dutch author Rudi van Dantzig) starts off looking like John Boorman's life-during-wartime remembrance Hope and Glory, and ends up becoming, midway through, something completely different.

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