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Title: Bride Flight (2008)
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| Karina Smulders | ... | Ada van Holland | |
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Pleuni Touw | ... | Old Ada |
| Anna Drijver | ... | Esther Cahn | |
| Willeke van Ammelrooy | ... | Old Esther | |
| Elise Schaap | ... | Marjorie Mullin | |
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Petra Laseur | ... | Old Marjorie |
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Waldemar Torenstra | ... | Frank de Rooy |
| Rutger Hauer | ... | Old Frank | |
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Micha Hulshof | ... | Derk Visser |
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Mattijn Hartemink | ... | Hans Doorman |
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Walter Bart | ... | Leon |
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Hans Man in 't Veld | ... | Vicar |
| Rawiri Paratene | ... | Old Mosie | |
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Rob Mokaraka | ... | Mosie |
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Mykola Allen | ... | Bobby Doorman |
In 1953, a flood adding to the aftermath of World War II swells the numbers of Dutch emigrants. On a KLM flight to New Zealand, part of a race from London, Frank de Rooy (Waldemar Torenstra), who lost his family and colonial estate in the Japanese occupation and Indonesian civil war of Independence, meets some virtual mail order brides. Ada van Holland (Karina Smulders) becomes his lover before confessing she's already married by proxy to gloomy Calvinist Derk Visser (Micha Hulshof). Jewish concentration-camp survivor Esther Cahn (Anna Drijver) dodges her engagement for a fashion career and discreetly has her son Bobby (Mykola Allen) adopted by infertile Marjorie Mullin (Elise Shaap), who did everything else right with husband Hans (Mattijn Hartemink). Over the years, some of their paths cross again, and all of the survivors meet at Frank's funeral. Written by KGF Vissers
In the present day, successful winemaker Frank de Rooy dies and three women are requested at his funeral. In 1953, a KLM flight breaks a record traveling from London to Christchurch. Frank meets Ada van Holland, Esther Cahn, and Marjorie Mullin who are three of the brides on their way to New Zealand. Frank lost his family in colonial Indonesia during the war. He falls for country girl Ada but she's already married by proxy to Calvinist Derk Visser. She goes on to live a loveless marriage in a bunker having several children. The only passion is the exchange of letters with Frank until he discovers them. Esther is an independent Jewish woman after losing everyone in the Holocaust. She refuses to live with ghosts from the past and charges forward making a career as a successful fashion designer. Marjorie marries Hans Doorman. After Esther gives birth, Marjorie adopts the baby as her own.
It's an old-fashion romantic melodrama. Ada's quiet suffering is devastating and her life is worthy of any pulp romance. This is all very pulpy with Marjorie and Esther. The movie should stop flashing forward to the modern era so much. It should have stopped after Rutger Hauer died. Every time it goes modern, the movie grinds to a halt. The modern era should be tiny bookends. Otherwise, this is a good old fashion melodrama if one is inclined towards such things.