The Assault

Year: 1986

Runtime: 144 mins

Language: Dutch

Director: Fons Rademakers

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At the end of World War II, a Dutch resistance group assassinates a German officer in front of a family’s home. Years later, the boy who witnessed the execution as a child encounters the former resistance members responsible, forcing him to confront the lingering shadows of that night.

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