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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305972907 Format: Color, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6305972907 Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay Release Date: April 24, 2001 Running Time: 165 minutes Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Theatrical Release Date: August 16, 1979 Sales Rank: 23939 Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Based on real events, Soldier of Orange tells the story of Dutchman Erik Lanshof (a star-making performance by Rutger Hauer) and a small group of students as they struggle to survive the Nazi occupation to the end of the Second World War. The destinies of the characters range from joining the German army to making for England, the OSS, and the Resistance. Across a canvas lasting almost three hours, director Paul Verhoeven unfolds a saga of friendship, espionage, and romance with almost documentary realism--though not as graphically violent as his later American films, the torture scenes are intense--crafting a deeply affecting film widely regarded as the greatest ever made in Holland. Comparable recent films such as Enigma (2001) and Charlotte Gray (2002) do not come close. Hauer is brilliant at the heart of what is a detailed and thoughtful drama made with integrity and passion. Twenty years later in 1997, Verhoeven made Starship Troopers, a satirical science-fiction companion to this modern European classic. --Gary S. Dalkin Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The New Nobility of Europe will come from the Resistance.So said the queen then and so it became. This film is one of the great half dozen or so masterpieces of film from the 20th Century. It's no secret that Mr. Hauer is considered the European "James Dean" of his generation and perhaps the most intelligent actor ever from Dutch Cinema. The innovation and pure poetry of "Orange" from the insertion of Hauer into old newsreels, to the delicate embroidery of repetive music has been endlessly copied but never reproduced. A great film has to have transcendant ... Read More Rating: - A movie made with a lot of 'heart'. Bold, naive and Dutch in positve way.The Netherlands (aka Holland) has not produced many movies that survived the onslaught of Hollywood productions in the cinemas. I grew up as a Surinamese youth in the Netherlands, from a Dutch father that was in Holland for most of WWII. He never talks about it unless I really prod and the stories and memories visibly shake him and others that talk about it. Memories of him as a 13 or 14 year old in the Hague when the Nazi's rounded up folks on a square in the city and eliminated them. Anyways, I am drifting ... Read More Rating: - Soldier of OrangeDirector Verhoeven's breatkthrough Dutch film would win him a ticket to Hollywood, along with stars Hauer and Krabbe (who are both outstanding here), but none of the three would again equal this breathless, beautifully realized film, which, like most outstanding war movies, also manages to tell an affecting human story. Intelligent, involving and highly evocative, "Soldier Of Orange" is one of the finest war films of this or any period. Rating:  - One of my Favorite Films...............I REALLY DO LOVE THIS FILM...............I WATCH IT ABOUT ONCE A YEAR AND ENJOY IT EVERY TIME...........HOWEVER , AS A REALITY CHECK , I SAW IT FOR THE FIRST TIME AT A FILM FESTIVAL HERE IN PORTLAND , OREGON IN 1978........IN THE AUDIENCE WAS MY FILM PROFESSOR AT THE TIME , ANDRIES DEINAM.............HE WAS FROM THE NETHERLANDS AND IMMIGRATED TO THE US IN 1939...........HE ENLISTED IN THE US ARMY AND THEY SENT HIM TO LONDON TO BE PART OF THE DUTCH RESISTANCE............HE WORKED WITH THE O.S.S. , WHICH BECAME ... Read More Rating: - "Even if they die, they will keep the Nazis busy for months."Winner of the Los Angeles Film Critics Award as Best Foreign Film in 1979, Soldier of Orange is based on the memoir of the same name by Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, one of the founders of the Dutch Resistance, aide to Queen Wilmelmina during her exile in England, and RAF Pathfinder pilot in the last days of the war. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the film dramatizes the traumatic effects of the Nazi occupation on Holland, and the often futile attempts to form a local Dutch Resistance. Location scenes provide ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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