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Het meisje met het rode haar (1981)

110 min · Drama, Historie

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Directors

Ben Verbong

Cast

Renée Soutendijk, Peter Tuinman, Loes Luca, Johan Leysen, Robert Delhez

A Dutch student joins the Resistance to fight the German occupation of her homeland.

The story

Dutch student Hannie Schaft joins the Resistance in her mid-twenties to fight the German occupiers of her homeland. Known by the nickname “The Girl with the Red Hair,” she becomes the focus of a search by German occupiers and Dutch collaborators after a series of attacks.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

The film depicts the life of Hannie Schaft, a Dutch student who joins the Dutch Resistance in her mid-twenties to fight the German occupiers of her homeland. Because of her striking red hair, she is nicknamed “The Girl with the Red Hair” (Het meisje met het rode haar). After several more or less successful attacks, the German occupiers and Dutch collaborators search for her without success at first, until she is accidentally caught by them in March 1945, a few weeks before the end of the war. The film ends with Hannie Schaft’s execution by firing squad in the Kennemerduinen near Bloemendaal on April 17, 1945.

Genres

Drama, Historie

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