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Based on Dutch author Harry Mulisch's novel, The Assault is the story of a Dutch man's coming to grips with history and his own past. As a 12-year-old boy in early 1945, Anton Steenwijk (Marc van Uchelen) lives under the shadow of the Nazi occupation of Haarlem. Despite the food and fuel shortages, the almost-defeated Nazis have a minimal effect on the lives of the Steenwijk family, who try to evade history by translating Homer, reading Spinoza, and playing board games...
Paradoxically, The Assault proves itself a daring film through the accuracy with which it follows Mulisch's novel. Mulisch's plot and dialogue are faithfully rendered, of course, but more surprisingly, so is his presentation. Like the book, the film is narrated in third-person by an anonymous, omniscient voice. The film is divided, like the book, into episodes marked by the year in which they take place...
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