Soldier of Orange

Soldier of Orange
American film poster
Directed byPaul Verhoeven
Written by
  • Kees Holierhoek
  • Gerard Soeteman
  • Paul Verhoeven
Based onSoldaat van Oranje by Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema
Produced byRob Houwer
Starring
CinematographyJost Vacano
Edited byJane Sperr
Music byRogier van Otterloo
Production
companies
Distributed byTuschinski Film Distribution
Release date
  • 1977 (1977)
Running time
147 minutes
CountryNetherlands
Languages
  • Dutch
  • English
  • German
Budgetƒ 5 million

Soldier of Orange (Dutch: Soldaat van Oranje, IPA: [sɔlˈdaːt fɑn oːˈrɑɲə]), released in the United Kingdom as Survival Run,[1] is a 1977 Dutch romantic war thriller film directed and co-written by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, based on Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema's autobiographical book of the same name. Starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé, the film is set around the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, and shows how individual students have different roles in the war.

With a budget of ƒ 5 million (€2.3 million), it was, at the time, the most expensive Dutch film ever. With 1,547,183 viewers, Soldier of Orange was the most popular Dutch film of 1977.[2] The film received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.[3] At the 1999 Netherlands Film Festival, it was voted the second-best Dutch film of the twentieth century.

In 1979, the film was edited into a miniseries and aired on TV as Voor Koningin en Vaderland.[4][5]

Paul Verhoeven (director) and Rob Houwer (producer) with lead actors Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé at the release of the motion picture Soldier of Orange.
  1. ^ "SURVIVAL RUN | British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk.
  2. ^ Soldaat van Oranje Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine at www.filmtotaal.nl
  3. ^ Soldier Of Orange at the website of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
  4. ^ Het Vrije Volk (11 January 1979). Soldaat van Oranje zal 't goed doen op tv. Geraadpleegd via Delpher.
  5. ^ Nieuwsblad van het Noorden (31 January 1979). 'Sluikreclame moet weg uit televisiefilm'. Geraadpleegd via Delpher.