Bankier van het Verzet

"The greatest concealed act of resistance"

Mar 8 2018 TV-MA 2h 3m
Biography, Drama, War

In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.

Plot

During the Nazi occupation, Amsterdam family banker Walraven van Hall enthusiastically accepts, despite brother-partner Gijs and many colleagues' reservations, to help the resistance by financing them with fake credits, for which the Dutch government in exile gives a post-war guarantee. As the war drags on, he largely exceeds the guaranteed sum and forges a coordination between resistance components, but the Germans plus collaborators set up a large operation to find and roll up the 'underground bank'. As Allied forces approach, a far larger sum is needed to pay for a massive railway strike, but the regular systems are exhausted. Walraven now devises a daring plan to liberate funds from the national bank by a complex web of forged promissory notes, but the ruthless SS is hot on their trail.

Written by

Marieke van der Pol, Thomas van der Ree, Matthijs Bockting

Directed by

Joram Lürsen

Production Countries

Netherlands

Production Companies

Zilvermeer Productions, EO, Mollywood, NL Film en TV, Dutch Filmworks, Nanook Entertainment

Languages

Deutsch, Nederlands

Awards

7 wins & 10 nominations

Scores
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11,334
Average Rating
6.9 out of 10
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