Soldier of Orange — Netherlands
Paul Verhoeven's 1977 epic follows Dutch student Erik Lanshof and his friends through occupation — some collaborate, some resist, as the social world they knew is systematically dismantled.
Soldier of Orange is based on the memoir of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, who escaped the Netherlands and served as a pilot and SOE agent, eventually becoming an aide to Queen Wilhelmina in London. The film shows the range of responses among Dutch students to occupation — from resistance to collaboration — and the randomness of who survived.