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With Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari, Jonas Smulders, Abel van Gijlswijk. A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands' colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander's elite squad.
- (7K)
- Drama, Thriller, War
- Jim Taihuttu
- 2021-08-13
The story is about Indonesia's claim for independence from the Netherlands straight after World War 2, when the country was still called the Dutch East Indies. It follows a young Dutch soldier who travels with the army to the East to restore order and to stop the rebellion.
The East (Dutch: De Oost) is a 2020 Dutch war film directed by Jim Taihuttu [nl]. Plot. The film is set in the Dutch East Indies of 1946 during the Indonesian National Revolution. Twenty-year-old soldier Johan de Vries from Arcen is sent to Semarang, where the Dutch army says it is to liberate the Indonesian people from the authority of Sukarno.
Aug 12, 2021 · “The East,” a bloated and thoroughly generic war movie by the Dutch filmmaker Jim Taihuttu, reckons with the Netherlands’ colonial legacy by spotlighting this overlooked moment in history.
- Beatrice Loayza
- Jim Taihuttu
Review by Stephen Ghoullespie ★★★★ An incredibly bold film about colonialism and fascism. This dramatises suppressed history, chronicling the ‘Police Actions’ — the phrase used to pave over war crimes — of Dutch forces in Indonesia.
- (3.9K)
- New Amsterdam Film Company
- Jim Taihuttu
At those moments, The East is almost a fever dream." [13] Critic Remke de Lange of Trouw gave the film three out of five stars: "The structure of the screenplay by Taihuttu and Mustafa Duygulu is solid.
Review: Johan de Vries ( Martijn Lakemeier ) did not receive a hero's welcome when he returned from military service in what was in the late nineteen-forties known as the Dutch East Indies, but now would be called Indonesia.
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