Credited cast: | |||
Huub Smit | ... | Toon Kuijper | |
Kay Greidanus | ... | Jan | |
Jeroen van Koningsbrugge | ... | Dries Riphagen | |
Britte Lagcher | ... | Zusje Greetje | |
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Anna Raadsveld | ... | Betje |
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Sigrid ten Napel | ... | Lena |
Lisa Zweerman | ... | Greetje | |
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Guido Pollemans | ... | Harry Rond |
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Micha Hulshof | ... | Albert Kok |
Steef de Bot | ... | Arie | |
Peter Blok | ... | Gert van der Veen | |
Sieger Sloot | ... | Frits Kerkhoven | |
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Antoinette Jelgersma | ... | Esther Schaap |
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Tjebbo Gerritsma | ... | Joop Out |
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Mark Rietman | ... | Einthoven |
The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.
Definitely better than I had expected going in. A tense period piece with the war as a distant background and the cat and mouse game of the Wehrmacht security forces and their collaborators against Dutch resistance fighters in the foreground.
The way Riphagen, a criminal who makes the best of the situation, plays his victims and his enemies is like watching a snake curling its way through a buffalo stampede of self-righteous characters and thoroughly enjoyable.
Especially interesting is the fast pace that allows for a second half that shows how the approaching end of the war unleashed a whirlwind of internally divided Dutch nationalism that started lashing out against anyone deemed a collaborator and was already preparing for the fight against the communists.