De overval

Summary

War film about a raid on a prison in Leeuwarden in 1944.

On December 8 1944, a number of Frisian resistance fighters 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 prisoners, 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.

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