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| name = Soldier of Orange |
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| director = [[Paul Verhoeven]] |
| director = [[Paul Verhoeven]] |
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| producer = [[Rob Houwer]] |
| producer = [[Rob Houwer]] |
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| writer = Kees Holierhoek |
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* Kees Holierhoek |
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* Paul Verhoeven |
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| based_on = ''Soldaat van Oranje'' by [[Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema]] |
| based_on = ''Soldaat van Oranje'' by [[Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema]] |
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| distributor = Tuschinski Film Distribution |
| distributor = Tuschinski Film Distribution |
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| released = {{film date|1977}} |
| released = {{film date|1977}} |
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| runtime = 147 minutes |
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| country = Netherlands |
| country = Netherlands |
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| language = {{ubl|Dutch|English|German}} |
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| budget = [[Dutch guilder|ƒ]] 5 million |
| budget = [[Dutch guilder|ƒ]] 5 million |
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'''''Soldier of Orange''''' ({{lang-nl|Soldaat van Oranje}}, {{IPA-nl|sɔlˈdaːt fɑn oˈrɑɲə|IPA}}) is a 1977 Dutch [[romance film|romantic]] [[thriller (genre)|thriller film]] directed and co-written by [[Paul Verhoeven]] and produced by [[Rob Houwer]], based on [[Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema]]'s autobiographical book of the same name. Starring [[Rutger Hauer]] and [[Jeroen Krabbé]], the film is set around the [[German occupation of the Netherlands]] during [[World War II]], and shows how individual students have different roles in the war. |
'''''Soldier of Orange''''' ({{lang-nl|Soldaat van Oranje}}, {{IPA-nl|sɔlˈdaːt fɑn oˈrɑɲə|IPA}}) (released in the United Kingdom as '''''Survival Run'''''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/survival-run-1977|title=SURVIVAL RUN | British Board of Film Classification|website=www.bbfc.co.uk}}</ref>) is a 1977 Dutch [[romance film|romantic]] [[war film|war]] [[thriller (genre)|thriller film]] directed and co-written by [[Paul Verhoeven]] and produced by [[Rob Houwer]], based on [[Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema]]'s autobiographical book of the same name. Starring [[Rutger Hauer]] and [[Jeroen Krabbé]], the film is set around the [[German occupation of the Netherlands]] during [[World War II]], and shows how individual students have different roles in the war. |
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With a budget of [[Dutch guilder|ƒ]] 5 million ([[Euro|€]]2.3 million), it was, at the time, the most expensive Dutch film ever. With 1,547,183 viewers, ''Soldier of Orange'' was the most popular Dutch film of 1977.<ref name="filmtotaal">[http://www.filmtotaal.nl/module.php?section=nfdDetails&movieID=396&titel=Soldaat_van_Oranje Soldaat van Oranje] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716112147/http://www.filmtotaal.nl/module.php?section=nfdDetails&movieID=396&titel=Soldaat_van_Oranje |date=2011-07-16}} at www.filmtotaal.nl</ref> The film received a [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe]] nomination for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] in 1980.<ref name="hfpa">[http://www.hfpa.org/browse/film/24971 Soldier Of Orange] at the website of the [[Hollywood Foreign Press Association]]</ref> At the 1999 [[Netherlands Film Festival]], it was voted the second-best Dutch film of the twentieth century. |
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In 1979, the film was edited into a [[miniseries]] and aired on TV as '''''Voor Koningin en Vaderland'''''.<ref>''[[Het Vrije Volk]]'' (11 January 1979). [https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010959997:mpeg21:a0242 Soldaat van Oranje zal 't goed doen op tv]. Geraadpleegd via [[Delpher]].</ref><ref>''[[Nieuwsblad van het Noorden]]'' (31 January 1979). [https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011018670:mpeg21:a0018 'Sluikreclame moet weg uit televisiefilm']. Geraadpleegd via Delpher.</ref> |
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[[File:Makers van Soldaat van Oranje in Tuschinski.jpg|thumb|[[Paul Verhoeven]] (director) and [[Rob Houwer]] (producer) with lead actors [[Rutger Hauer]] and [[Jeroen Krabbé]] at the release of the motion picture ''Soldier of Orange''.]] |
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==Plot== |
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* Brûni Heinke as an [[National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands|NSB]] member. |
* Brûni Heinke as an [[National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands|NSB]] member. |
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==Reception== |
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===Critical response=== |
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''Soldier of Orange'' has an approval rating of 91% on [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 11 reviews, and an average rating of 7.8/10.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/soldier_of_orange | title=Soldier of Orange - Rotten Tomatoes | website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] }}</ref> |
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===Awards and nominations=== |
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The film won the [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]] Award for Best Foreign Film in [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1979|1979]].<ref>[http://www.lafca.net/Home/Previous_Years__Winners/1979/1979.html Previous Years' Winners 1979] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903172219/http://www.lafca.net/Home/Previous_Years__Winners/1979/1979.html |date=2006-09-03 }} at the website of the [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]]</ref> One year later, in 1980, it received a [[Golden Globe]] nomination for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]],<ref name="hfpa"/> but the French-Italian film ''[[La Cage aux Folles (film)|La Cage aux Folles]]'' won the award. |
The film won the [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]] Award for Best Foreign Film in [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1979|1979]].<ref>[http://www.lafca.net/Home/Previous_Years__Winners/1979/1979.html Previous Years' Winners 1979] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903172219/http://www.lafca.net/Home/Previous_Years__Winners/1979/1979.html |date=2006-09-03 }} at the website of the [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]]</ref> One year later, in 1980, it received a [[Golden Globe]] nomination for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]],<ref name="hfpa"/> but the French-Italian film ''[[La Cage aux Folles (film)|La Cage aux Folles]]'' won the award. |
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The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[50th Academy Awards]], but was not accepted as a nominee.<ref>Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</ref> |
The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[50th Academy Awards]], but was not accepted as a nominee.<ref>Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</ref> |
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==Stage musical adaptation== |
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==Musical== |
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{{main|Soldier of Orange (musical)}} |
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[[File:TheaterHangaar op vliegveld Valkenburg.JPG|thumb|150px|Theatre Hangar Valkenburg]] |
[[File:TheaterHangaar op vliegveld Valkenburg.JPG|thumb|150px|Theatre Hangar Valkenburg]] |
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On 30 October 2010, |
On 30 October 2010, a [[musical theatre|musical of the same name]] premiered in the Netherlands. It was shown in a special theatre converted from an old hangar at the former [[Valkenburg Naval Air Base|Valkenburg Air Base]] in [[Katwijk]]. Instead of having the sets changing onstage, the area where the audience sits revolved to different stages (using a system named [[SceneAround]]), which included a set with a recreated beach and an artificial sea and a set containing a real [[Douglas DC-3]] [[Dakota plane]]. |
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The musical has since been performed in other cities, including London.<ref>{{cite web | title=Music Theatre - Official site | website=Soldier of Orange | date=2019-03-26 | url=https://www.soldieroforange.com/ | access-date=2020-07-26}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 08:23, 10 June 2024
Soldier of Orange | |
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Directed by | Paul Verhoeven |
Written by |
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Based on | Soldaat van Oranje by Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema |
Produced by | Rob Houwer |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Jost Vacano |
Edited by | Jane Sperr |
Music by | Rogier van Otterloo |
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Distributed by | Tuschinski Film Distribution |
Release date |
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Running time | 147 minutes |
Country | Netherlands |
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Budget | ƒ 5 million |
Soldier of Orange (Dutch: Soldaat van Oranje, IPA: [sɔlˈdaːt fɑn oˈrɑɲə]) (released in the United Kingdom as Survival Run[1]) is a 1977 Dutch romantic war thriller film directed and co-written by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, based on Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema's autobiographical book of the same name. Starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé, the film is set around the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, and shows how individual students have different roles in the war.
With a budget of ƒ 5 million (€2.3 million), it was, at the time, the most expensive Dutch film ever. With 1,547,183 viewers, Soldier of Orange was the most popular Dutch film of 1977.[2] The film received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.[3] At the 1999 Netherlands Film Festival, it was voted the second-best Dutch film of the twentieth century.
In 1979, the film was edited into a miniseries and aired on TV as Voor Koningin en Vaderland.[4][5]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Makers_van_Soldaat_van_Oranje_in_Tuschinski.jpg/220px-Makers_van_Soldaat_van_Oranje_in_Tuschinski.jpg)
Plot
Set during World War II, the film is about students in Leiden, the Netherlands: Erik Lanshof, Guus LeJeune, Jan Weinberg, and Alex. Robby Froost is Erik's friend; Esther is Robby's girlfriend. Some collaborate; others join the Dutch resistance.
It begins with a flashforward: an immediately post war newsreel of Queen Wilhelmina returning to the Netherlands. The film then moves to the late 1930s in Leiden, where freshmen undergo the initiation rites of their fraternity. Erik is picked out by Guus, the chair, who drops a bowl of soup on his head, injuring him. Guus apologises and offers a room in his student house. There, the students (Erik, Guus, Jacques, Jan, and Alex) drink to their friendship.
In September 1939, an English radio broadcast interrupts their tennis, announcing the declaration of war against Germany. Initially, they are unalarmed, believing the Netherlands will remain neutral as in World War I. Jan, a Jew, and Alex, who is half German, join the Dutch Army. In May 1940, Germany invades. Erik and Guus try to join up, but are fobbed off. Soon, the Netherlands capitulates after the Rotterdam Blitz.
Robby is in contact with the Dutch government-in-exile via a radio transmitter in his garden and offers Erik a flight to London. Jan, a boxing champion, assaults two fascists harassing a Jewish hawker, so Erik offers his seat to Jan. However, the Germans intercept the pick up: Jan is captured but Erik escapes.
Erik sees Alex marching in a departing military parade of the Waffen-SS. Later, Erik is also captured. Jan tells him, based on his interrogator's comment, that a Van der Zanden in London betrayed them. Jan, who resists interrogation, is executed on the Waalsdorpervlakte dunes. Robby's radio is discovered, and he is forced to work for the Gestapo by their threat of deporting Esther, a Jew, to a labour camp.
Erik and Guus flee for London on the Swiss cargo ship St. Cergue.[6] In London, Erik meets Van der Zanden (modelled after general François van 't Sant) and tries to kill him. However he is not a traitor, but head of the Dutch Central Intelligence Service and a private secretary to Queen Wilhelmina. Guus begins an affair with Susan, a secretary in British intelligence. Erik and Guus agree to rescue resistance leaders for post-war roles. Guus is taken ashore and meets the leaders. As Guus' radio has been damaged by seawater, they use Robby to contact London.
Erik then follows to arrange Guus and the resistance leaders' departure by sea. However, Robby has infiltrated the group and so the Germans have followed them. Erik sees Robby with them and tries unsuccessfully to warn them. After ducking into the beach mansion party for cover, seeing Alex and dancing ballroom tango with him, Erik meets the others on the beach. When Robby realises Erik knows about his collaboration, he fires a signal flare. Despite German warnings, the group tries to flee but the leaders are killed. Guus escapes by swimming, but only Erik reaches the ship.
Guus later shoots Robby in the street. He flees, but is caught and guillotined. On the Eastern Front, Alex is killed in a latrine by a hand grenade from a boy he had mocked when the boy begged for food. Erik becomes an RAF bomber pilot and is later appointed aide to Queen Wilhelmina, and accompanies her home. Erik finds that Dutch citizens have cut off Esther's hair as punishment for her and Robby's collaboration. She says she bears no grudge. Finally, Erik celebrates the end of the war with a fellow student, Jacques ten Brinck, who also survived.
Cast
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Rutger_Hauer_%28links%29_en_Jeroen_Krabb%C3%A9_op_motor_bij_aankomst%2C_Bestanddeelnr_929-3579.jpg/220px-Rutger_Hauer_%28links%29_en_Jeroen_Krabb%C3%A9_op_motor_bij_aankomst%2C_Bestanddeelnr_929-3579.jpg)
- Rutger Hauer as Erik Lanshof, a student in Leiden who joins the resistance.
- Jeroen Krabbé as Guus LeJeune, a combination of Ernst de Jonge, Peter Tazelaar and Chris Krediet, a student and friend of Erik who also joins the resistance.
- Susan Penhaligon as Susan, a British soldier and secretary to Colonel Rafelli.
- Edward Fox as Colonel Rafelli, the British officer who runs the missions Erik and Guus undertake to the occupied Netherlands.
- Lex van Delden as Nico, another of the students.
- Derek de Lint as Alex, a half-German student who is at first drafted into the Dutch army before joining the Waffen-SS after the German victory.
- Huib Rooymans as Jan Weinberg, a Jewish student and boxing champion.
- Dolf de Vries as Jacques ten Brinck, a student friend of Erik who continues his studies at Leiden University.
- Eddy Habbema as Robby Froost, a friend of Erik who operates radio communications for the resistance.
- Belinda Meuldijk as Esther, Bobby's fiancée who assists Erik on several occasions.
- Peter Faber as Will Oostgaarde, who accompanies Erik and Guus to London.
- Rijk de Gooyer as Gestapo-man Breitner.
- Reinhard Kolldehoff as Sturmbannführer Geisman, the German senior officer who gives orders to Breitner.
- Andrea Domburg as Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands.
- Guus Hermus as Van der Zanden, head of the Dutch Central Security Service and trustee of Queen Wilhelmina in London.
- Bert André as local man Gekke Dirk.
- Hugo Koolschijn as a Sicherheitspolizei-lieutenant.
- Brûni Heinke as an NSB member.
Reception
Critical response
Soldier of Orange has an approval rating of 91% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews, and an average rating of 7.8/10.[7]
Awards and nominations
The film won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Film in 1979.[8] One year later, in 1980, it received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film,[3] but the French-Italian film La Cage aux Folles won the award.
In the vote for best Dutch film of the twentieth century at the Netherlands Film Festival in 1999 Soldier of Orange won second place behind Turkish Delight, another Paul Verhoeven film.[9]
The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 50th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[10] Golden Globe Awards
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
1977 | Soldier of Orange | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated |
Stage musical adaptation
On 30 October 2010, a musical of the same name premiered in the Netherlands. It was shown in a special theatre converted from an old hangar at the former Valkenburg Air Base in Katwijk. Instead of having the sets changing onstage, the area where the audience sits revolved to different stages (using a system named SceneAround), which included a set with a recreated beach and an artificial sea and a set containing a real Douglas DC-3 Dakota plane.
The musical has since been performed in other cities, including London.[11]
See also
- List of submissions to the 50th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Dutch submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
- ^ "SURVIVAL RUN | British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk.
- ^ Soldaat van Oranje Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine at www.filmtotaal.nl
- ^ a b Soldier Of Orange at the website of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- ^ Het Vrije Volk (11 January 1979). Soldaat van Oranje zal 't goed doen op tv. Geraadpleegd via Delpher.
- ^ Nieuwsblad van het Noorden (31 January 1979). 'Sluikreclame moet weg uit televisiefilm'. Geraadpleegd via Delpher.
- ^ ST. CERGUE History, swiss-ships.ch
- ^ "Soldier of Orange - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^ Previous Years' Winners 1979 Archived 2006-09-03 at the Wayback Machine at the website of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
- ^ "Turks Fruit gekozen tot Beste Nederlandse Film van de Eeuw". Nieuwsbank.nl. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
- ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- ^ "Music Theatre - Official site". Soldier of Orange. 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
External links
Reviews
- Review by Janet Maslin at New York Times
- Review by Bill Warren at Audio Video Revolution
(4.5/5)
- Review by Scott Weinberg at Apollo Movie Guide (7.9/10) (79/100)
- 1977 films
- 1977 drama films
- 1970s Dutch-language films
- 1970s English-language films
- 1970s television miniseries
- 1970s war drama films
- Anti-war films about World War II
- Cultural depictions of Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
- Dutch action films
- Dutch war drama films
- Dutch World War II films
- Films about Dutch resistance
- Films adapted into plays
- Films based on non-fiction books
- Films directed by Paul Verhoeven
- Films produced by Rob Houwer
- Films set in the Netherlands
- Films set in London
- Films set in Amsterdam
- Films set in universities and colleges
- Films set on the home front during World War II
- Films shot in London
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- Netherlands in fiction
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- Films scored by Rogier van Otterloo