La Bataille de l'Escaut

You fly a glider into a storm of flak and then a Nazi rifle cracks your wing. A Dutch teen signs up to fight but hides in barns as shells shred his village. Their fates lock on a single beach where the tide of war still turns on a forgotten fight. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. lets the wind carry the story, not the stars.

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Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. directed La Bataille de l'Escaut in 2021. See Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.'s full filmography, where to start with Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., or where to go after you've seen everything by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr..

La Bataille de l'Escaut was released in 2021 (NL original-language production), with a runtime of 126 minutes.