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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301966689 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6301966686 Label: MGM/UA Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video Release Date: July 14, 1987 Running Time: 125 minutes Studio: MGM/UA Home Video Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Burden of HistoryTHE ASSAULT is one of those movies that one hears about, makes a mental note to check out sometime and then promptly forgets. If there hadn't been a VHS copy of this Oscar winning film available in my local library, I doubt that I ever would have otherwise stumbled across it. So far, it is not available on DVD. Nor is the original Dutch language film available in any format in this country. And yes, I like to think that those of us who are "subtitle snobs" at least have a point. ... Read More Rating: - the best movie ever, it had a power impact on methis movie shows to us all what relative small impact during the years growing up might have on our being adult whow what a powerful movie Rating: - Touching Human Drama in Nazi-Occupied HollandI echo the strongly positive reviews of others on this thought-provoking and powerful Dutch film starring Derek De Lint ("Soldier of Orange," "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"). It thoroughly deserves the Academy Award it received in 1987 as Best Foreign Language Film. My only concerns are that this fine film is only available in the US in a dubbed version and on VHS. Why -- since it won an Oscar as best foreign language film -- is it not available in the US in the original Dutch ... Read More Rating: - A moving and thoughtful filmThis is an incredible movie. It will make you think and have you sit in suspense as all the story unfolds. I recommend this to anyone looking for a thought provoking, emotional and suspensful film. Rating: - This is possibly the best movie I have ever seen.In case you couldn't tell, I absolutely loved this movie. In fact, I watched it like 12 times in a row. It was the first Dutch film ever to win an Academy Award for best Foreign Film. It's basically a story of the effects of trauma onthe human mind. At first it's set in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1945, but the movie basically deals with the entire life of one boy, Anton Steenwijk. In 1945 his family was murdered, and not surprisingly, it affects everything in his life afterwards. Read More |
