The attack (1986)

Movie
German title	The attack
Original title	De aanslag
Country of production	Netherlands
original language	Dutch
Publishing year	1986
length	144 minutes
Rod
Director	Fons Rademakers
script	Gerard Soeteman
production	Fons Rademakers
music	Jurriaan Andriess
camera	Theo van de Sande
cut	Kees Linthorst
occupation
Derek de Lint : Anton Steenwijk Marc van Uchelen : Anton Steenwijk as a teenager Monique van de Ven : Saskia de Graaff / Truus Coster John Kraaykamp : Cor Takes Huub van der Lubbe : Fake Ploeg Elly Weller : Mrs. Beumer Ina van der Molen : Karin Korteweg Frans Vorstman : Father Steenwijk Edda Barends : Mother Steenwijk Casper de Boer : Peter Steenwijk Wim de Haas : Mr. Korteweg Hiske van der Linden : Karin Korteweg as a teenager Piet de Wijn : Mr. Beumer Akkemay : Sandra Kees Coolen : Gerrit-Jan Ludwig Haas : General von Braunstein Christian Golusda : German officer Horst A. Reichel : German officer

The attack (original title: De aanslag ) is a Dutch feature film from 1986 based on the novel " Das Assentat " by Harry Mulisch . Fons Rademakers led directed and produced the film. The main character (Anton Steenwijk) was played by both Derek de Lint (in the present) and Marc van Uchelen (as a youth towards the end of World War II ), while Monique van de Ven plays two different roles - one in the present as the Wife of Anton Steenwijk and a woman in the past who was involved in the attack and whom Steenwijk sees again later that night in a dark police cell.

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Anton Steenwijk's family was murdered by the Nazis . His home was set on fire in 1945 after the body of a collaborator who was shot by the Dutch resistance was found outside his home. The story oscillates between the end of World War II and the 1980s. In doing so, she follows Steenwijk's search for the truth.

criticism

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "inconsistently staged [...]" and also "developed largely without tension [...]" . Sympathy is bestowed on him "through his appeal to tolerance [and] the drawing of different ways of coming to terms with the past ."

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The film won the 1987 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film , the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Golden Space Needle of the Seattle International Film Festival .

Web links

• The stop at the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The attack. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed March 26, 2013 .  
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.