The East

The East

2021 · 137 min · NL · 6.0 (80 votes)
Dir. Jim Taihuttu · Starring Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari, Jonas Smulders, Jim Deddes, Abel van Gijlswijk, Coen Bril

“A war between duty and conscience.”

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A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.

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A grim and morally complex war drama that plunges you into the brutal realities of colonial conflict. It's a tense, character-driven experience that questions duty and conscience amidst escalating violence.

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