Beste Nederlandse film/Best Dutch movie

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tihi, funny how you checked the imdb page just before watching the movie on tv. :) just watched it too, and allthough i liked it, it did seem a bit 'fragmented'; skipping very fast from scene to scene, much like the (non-extended versions of the) lord of the rings movies do.

with respect to the best dutch movie, i cant really say much. i havent seen 'spoorloos', though i have of course read 'het gouden ei' (if it is based on that). my personal favourites sofar are 'amsterdamned' and 'ciske de rat'. both set in amsterdam (the first is partly filmed in utrecht, though), maybe a coincidence? ;)

about future dutch movies; i'd love to see some movie about the glorydays of dutch history. the war of independence, the golden age, the anglo-dutch wars, there are enough subjects to pick from. i know that it is very un-dutch to be proud of our own history, but why not try to change that with a nice movie? when i watch chinese movies like 'hero' or 'once upon a time in china', im thinking that we can do that too. so what if we romaticize out history... i'd rather have that than ignore it.

Gnolti, he was talking about civilian casualties. Ofcourse the Americans, Canadians and Brits came to the rescue of the european mainland and a lot of soldiers died doing it, but the discussion was about civilians. And there you have to agree: the US have simply never been occupied in any way or had an assault on their own territory (please, do not count 9/11 as an attack on the US)
But to stick to the movie at hand. You got a point about SOA not being all that. The Dutch have a tendency to be a little over-proud of their war-past. But SOA isn't glorifying anything. It's simply a well told and shot story about the dutch resistance, and because our filmindustry is very small there aren't that many really great movies around. But this is definately one of 'm.
And I'm curious about those Robin Hood movies. People always use comparisons in topics like this, but almost always forget to come with examples.

By the way, I recently watched Simon, and goddayumn what a great film. Kicked Wilde Mossels en SOA from the top of my favourites-list

Dat programma ben ik ook tegengekomen bij het kanaalsurfen.

Ik vraag me af of al die opgeblazen ego's alleen een of ander ondraaglijk traag Frans drama als beste noemen om elitair en geleerd over te komen, of dat ze werkelijk zo weinig smaak hebben.

'De Noordelingen' is een meesterwerkje

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105019/

Soldier of Orange is fantastic and still is the best Dutch film. Why I ask you there is NO release on Bluray. For a Dutchman myself I do not understand why it is 2014 and still nothing. Spetters,Blackbook from Paul Verhoeven you can get on Bluray and Soldier of Orange where is that Masterpiece of Dutch Cinema.
Other that you mentioned are also great, but here are some others:
De Aanslag-the Assault
Turks Fruit-Turkish Delight
De Noordelingen
Borgman
Wolf
Blackout
Suskind
Sonny Boy
Oorlogswinter-Winter in Wartime
for example,but memory of a killer I do not know and:
Bullhead and the Loft are Belgium. Well the last one had a Dutch remake.