Director: Paul Rotha | Production Country: Netherlands | Year: 1962 | Production Company: Sapphire Film Productie Mij (Amsterdam) | FLM50658 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/...
War film about a raid on a prison in Leeuwarden in 1944.
On December 8, 1944 a number of Friesian resistance men raided a prison in Leeuwarden and, without loss of blood, freed dozens of prisoners, among them several leaders of the Leeuwarden resistance and a police inspector. For some of the men, severely weakened by torture, the raid came just in time.
De overval paints a sober and unromantic picture of this heroic deed. The film - made by Paul Rotha and Kees Brusse who worked on the film as a dialogue director and actor - was an immediate box office hit. Within weeks a million people had seen the film. The press named De overval the best post-war Dutch film. It was also successful internationally.
Cast: Rob van der Linden, Kees Brusse, Els Bouwman, Hans Culeman, Ab Abspoel, Bernhard Droog, Chris Baay, Lo van Hensbergen, André van den Heuvel, Frans Kokshoorn, Henk Admiraal, Sjef van Leeuwen, Pieter Lutz, Sacco van der Made, Hetty Beck, Onno Molenkamp, Adelheid van der Most, Pierre Myin, Yoka Berretty, Piet Römer, Riek Schagen, Robert Sobels, Diny Sprock, Hans Tiemeyer, Jaap Valkhoff, Fred Verdelman, Thera Verheugen, Rob de Vries, Peter Zuid, Hans Boswinkel.
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