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A documentary on perhaps the most important figure in the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War, Walraven van Hall. The story of an enigmatic man whose charm and powers of persuasion brought order to the crumbling Resistance movement. He was an inexhaustible source of inventive support and help, especially in the last and most decisive year of the Resistance, during the Winter of Hunger that almost brought life in the northern regions of Netherlands to a standstill. Walraven van Hall was nicknamed ‘the oil man’ for good reason. The German occupation forces knew that such a person was active in the...

Director : Cees Overgaauw

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 45

Language : Dutch, English

The Resistance Banker

This film tells the true story of Walraven van Hall and his brother, Gijsbert who came from a wealthy Dutch banking family. During the Nazi occupation, the van Hall brothers supplied the Dutch resistance with around five-hundred million dollars in order for the resisters to maintain their work. The brothers also stole money from the Germans as well as the Dutch bank, aided 8,000 Jews in hiding via supplies, food and money and led fallen Allied pilots to safety. The film focuses on one particular action by the brothers which was robbing the Dutch Bank making it the largest bank robbery in European history....

Director : Joram Lursen

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 122

Language : Dutch