Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 148 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Dutch
- Country
- Belgium, Netherlands
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In Dutch — subtitles on.
The story
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.
- based on novel or book
- espionage
- world war ii
- jew persecution
- netherlands
- brotherhood
- male friendship
- nazi occupation
- college student
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Huib Rooymans — Jan Weinberg
- Dolf de Vries — Jack Ten Brinck
- Eddy Habbema — Robby Froost
- Belinda Meuldijk — Esther
- Peter Faber — Will Dostgaarde
- Rijk de Gooyer — Gestapo Agent Breitner
- Paul Brandenburg — SS-Obersturmführer Thelen
- Ward de Ravet — Resistance Leader
- Bert Struys — Resistance Leader
- Reinhard Kolldehoff — SS-Sturmbannführer Geisman
- Susan Penhaligon — Susan
- Directed
- Paul Verhoeven
- Written
- Gerard Soeteman, Paul Verhoeven, Kees Holierhoek
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 181 ratings
- Studio
- Excelsior Films, Rob Houwer Film Holland
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