He did not convince me in his description of the dance moves, or in his part.

My only criticism is regarding the actor planying the adult Jeroen, he did not in my view do justice to the acting of the boy. They both bring a spark of originality to what could have been a very low key, possibly boring story. I loved this film The main characters, 12 year old Jeroen (Marten Smit) and Walt (Andrew Kelley) are totally believable. A man who is a tranisient soldier,īased during the Second World War in Holland when the Allies started liberating Europe, this film stirs something in everybody, whether it be loathing, liking or ambivalence.

This film breaks all the barriers regarding male sex – a young boy reaching pubrty introduced to the pleasure of love with an adult man. Producers: Guurtje Buddenberg, Matthijs van Heijningen.

Writers: Roeland Kerbosch, Don Bloch, Rudi van Dantzig.

Actors: Maarten Smit, Andrew Kelley, Jeroen Krabbé, Freark Smink, Elsje de Wijn.

In March and April 2023, Dutch National Ballet will perform Swan Lake again in the version by Rudi van Dantzig. In May 2012, the company presented a homage to Van Dantzig to mark his death on 19 January 2012. On the occasion of his 75th birthday in 2009, Dutch National Ballet paid tribute to its former artistic leader with a programme dedicated to Van Dantzig and his work. Van Dantzig spent his last few years writing the book Memories of Sonia Gaskell, which was published posthumously in June 2013. Another well-known work is Olga de Haas: a memory. His debut novel was For a lost soldier, which was followed by The trail of a comet, a book about his memories of Rudolf Nureyev, in 1993, and The life of Willem Arondéus. Rudi van Dantzig has also become a well-known author. Van Dantzig’s best-known works include Vier letzte Lieder, Monument for a dead boy, Onder mijne voeten and his versions of the full-length classics Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake. Some of his works are still in Dutch National Ballet’s repertoire and that of many companies abroad. In total, Van Dantzig created over fifty ballets, often in collaboration with Toer van Schayk as set and costume designer. Following the foundation of the Dutch National Ballet in 1961, he became resident choreographer of the company, and, after having been the artistic co-director from 1965 onwards, Van Dantzig became the sole artistic director in 1971, which position he held until 1991. He started his dancing career in 1952 with Sonia Gaskell’s company Ballet Recital, one of the forerunners of Dutch National Ballet. For twenty years Van Dantzig was the artistic leader of Dutch National Ballet and he made choreographies that demonstrated an enormous social involvement. Few people have left such a mark on Dutch National Ballet and the Dutch dance world as writer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig (Amsterdam, 1933-2012).

For a lost soldier by rudi van dantzig