Film Roar

Soldier of Orange (1977)

Co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven, Soldaat van Oranje [Soldier of Orange] (1977) follows a Dutch aristocrat (Rutger Hauer) as he deals with love and loyalty during the German occupation of World War II.

The characters are interesting and well developed. I read a latent homosexual tension among the fraternity students in the core cast that may have been nothing more than a misreading of different cultural customs. I was also left wondering how much of the movie was lost to me due to mistranslation of the Dutch or cultural ignorance. If you ever wanted a movie about resistance fighters in Holland during WW II, this is the movie for you. Otherwise I would recommend you skip Soldier of Orange and keep browsing the video store.