Jeroen is lucky in the family he has been assigned. In the so-called Winter of Hunger in 1944, 12-year-old Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is sent by his parents along with a group of other Amsterdam children to foster homes in Friesland because there is still an abundance of food along the North Sea.
(As a period piece, the film boasts a few anachronisms “Sha-boom,” for example, is a song of the ‘50s, not ‘40s.) Finally, though, Kerbosch undercuts the chances he takes with a frustrating vagueness and evasiveness.
In its first half hour, Kerbosch’s film is altogether typical, but then it ventures into exceedingly risky territory with daring and taste. Writer-director Roeland Kerbosch and his adapter Don Bloch have brought choreographer Rudi van Dantzig’s autobiographical novel to the screen with the warmth, intimacy and sensitivity we have come to expect in subtitled movies. The Dutch film “For a Lost Soldier” (Sunset 5) resembles many other European pictures in its coming-of-age theme set against World War II.
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