A teenage boy helps battle the Nazis in wartime Holland in a watchable, if earnest, adventure yarn, writes Andrew Pulver

• Andrew Pulver
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 February 2010

 

 

 

A Dutch-made Boys' Own adventure yarn, set during the winter of 1944 as Holland endured the Nazis' icy grip. Michiel, a fresh-faced 14-year-old, yearns to join the resistance, stumbles across an injured British airman in a wood outside of town, and has to dodge the Germans to get food and medicine to the fugitive. Apparently it was a big Christmas hit in the Netherlands, and is entirely well-meaning – but it's all a little staid. Kids these days may demand   a little more edge.

 

apparently : widocznie

dodge : unikać

earnest : poważny, szczery

edge : tu: napięcie

endure : cierpieć, znosić

entirely : całkowicie

fugitive : zbieg, uchodźca

grip : uścisk, chwyt; władanie, kontrola

resistance : opór; ruch oporu

staid : stateczny, poważny

stumble across : natknąć się przypadkiem

yarn : opowieść

yearn : tęsknić do

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