An Interview with director Joram Lürsen of ‘The Resistance Banker‘/ ‘Bankier van het Verzet’
Slowly music and water segue into men filing into a conference room to hear a story they know nothing about. Water, the national symbol of Holland, a land forever waging a strategic battle with water, plays a thematic role in this film that only at the end becomes clear in its meaning of kinship and brotherhood.
Coming from an aristocratic Dutch banking family, brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall risk their families and futures to slow the Nazi war machine by creating an underground bank to fund the Dutch resistance in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Actually they rob the Dutch National Bank, something that to this day is not discussed as such although the heroism of the men has finally been acknowledged.
SydneysBuzz: I have never heard this story before. Why is such an important and really gripping story so unknown?...
Slowly music and water segue into men filing into a conference room to hear a story they know nothing about. Water, the national symbol of Holland, a land forever waging a strategic battle with water, plays a thematic role in this film that only at the end becomes clear in its meaning of kinship and brotherhood.
Coming from an aristocratic Dutch banking family, brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall risk their families and futures to slow the Nazi war machine by creating an underground bank to fund the Dutch resistance in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Actually they rob the Dutch National Bank, something that to this day is not discussed as such although the heroism of the men has finally been acknowledged.
SydneysBuzz: I have never heard this story before. Why is such an important and really gripping story so unknown?...
- 12/28/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
An Interview with director Joram Lürsen of ‘The Resistance Banker‘/ ‘Bankier van het Verzet’
Slow and mysterious, music and water segue into men filing into a conference room to hear a story they know nothing about. Water, the national symbol of Holland, a land forever waging a strategic battle with water, plays a thematic role in this film that only at the end becomes clear in its meaning of kinship and brotherhood.
Coming from an aristocratic Dutch banking family, brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall risk their families and futures to slow the Nazi war machine by creating an underground bank to fund the Dutch resistance in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Actually they rob the Dutch National Bank, something that to this day is not discussed as such although the heroism of the men has finally been acknowledged.
SydneysBuzzz: I have never heard this story before. Why is such an important and really gripping story so unknown?...
Slow and mysterious, music and water segue into men filing into a conference room to hear a story they know nothing about. Water, the national symbol of Holland, a land forever waging a strategic battle with water, plays a thematic role in this film that only at the end becomes clear in its meaning of kinship and brotherhood.
Coming from an aristocratic Dutch banking family, brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall risk their families and futures to slow the Nazi war machine by creating an underground bank to fund the Dutch resistance in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Actually they rob the Dutch National Bank, something that to this day is not discussed as such although the heroism of the men has finally been acknowledged.
SydneysBuzzz: I have never heard this story before. Why is such an important and really gripping story so unknown?...
- 11/13/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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