Paul Verhoeven in his audio commentary on the DVD edition of *Starship Troopers* says that his film was in many ways inspired by the Second World War, which he witnessed as a boy growing up in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. This is a subject Verhoeven tackled twice directly in his filmography. The first of those films was the 1977 war epic *Soldier of Orange*. The film is based on the best-selling memoirs of Dutch resis…
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Soldier of Orange
1977
Soldier of Orange, released in the United Kingdom as Survival Run, is a 1977 Dutch romantic war thriller film directed and co-written by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, based on Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema's autobiographical book of the same name. Starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé, the film is set around the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, and shows how individual students…
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