# Die Schlacht um die Schelde (2021)

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**Original title**: *De Slag om de Schelde*
**Runtime**: 126 min
**Genres**: Action, War, Adventure, History, Drama
**Directed by**: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
**Written by**: Jesse Maiman, Paula van der Oest
**Starring**: Gijs Blom, Jamie Flatters, Susan Radder, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Jan Bijvoet, Marthe Schneider

> *In the final years of World War II, the lives of a traitor, a pilot, and a resistance fighter become intertwined as they fight to survive.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: epic, raw

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