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LEGACY

DE STAMHOUDER

By Diederik VAN ROOIJEN

COLUMN FILM - as PROD

Drama - Production 2020

When Alexander falls in love with Ellen, she confronts him with the repressed war past of his family. During an emotional search for understanding and reconciliation with his sinister SS-father, authoritarian grandfather and long-lost mother, Alexander becomes a full-fledged husband, son and father.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama, Historical
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- DUTCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN
- Director(s)
- Diederik VAN ROOIJEN
- Writer(s)
- Rik D'HIET
- Cast
- Matthijs VAN DE SANDE BAKHUYZEN, Sallie HARMSEN, Gijs VAN SCHOLTEN ASCHAT , Marcel HENSEMA, Robert DE HOOG
- Producer(s)
- Chantal VAN DER HORST (COLUMN FILM)
- Synopsis
- Legacy tells the story of Alexander Münninghoff who fell in love with the self-assured, free-spirited Ellen in the late 1960s. When, after a beautiful night of love, he confesses that his father, Frans Münninghoff, was an SS soldier during the war, Ellen reacts dismissively. Her family suffered greatly from the war. She disappears from his life … only to reappear in it a good month later. She is pregnant. The twenty year olds want to keep the child and decide to get married. But then on the condition that Alexander deals with his dark family past. Alexander finds out that he knows very little about his parents and grandfather.