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Voor een verloren soldaat (For a Lost Soldier) is a 1992 Dutch movie after the autobiographical novel of the same title by ballet dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig. It deals with the pederastic romance between a 12-year-old boy (Dantzig) and a Canadian soldier during the final spell of World War II.

An adult Jeroen (Jeroen Krabbé) reminisces about the time in 1945 when he (Maarten Smit) and other children were sent to the countryside by their parents to remove them as far as possible from the war. The city also had food shortages, and more food was available in the country. He stays with an eel fisher's family, but despite the abundance of food, he is plagued with homesickness.

Things change when the village is liberated by Canadian troops. Jeroen meets Walt (Andrew Kelley), a Canadian soldier in his early twenties, who befriends him, but clearly also muses about Jeroen's sexuality. The two spend a lot of time together, Jeroen getting taught how to drive a Jeep, among other things. Jeroen revels in the attention the soldier showers on him, and eventually their relationship turns sexual.

The foster parents notice the nature of the relationship between Jeroen and the soldier, but tolerate it, perhaps realizing that wartime pederastic love affairs with military personnel, like both homosexual and heterosexual wartime romances, do not last.

After a few more days, Walt's troop gets order to move and Walt leaves without saying goodbye to Jeroen. Jeroen is heartbroken, having only a photo to remind him of the soldier who enamoured him. He decides to go to America later in his life.

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