It is an ambitious film, not only in terms of its budget but in the scope it tries to cover in over 2 hours. The Forgotten Battle is the Netherlands’ second most expensive film made, with a budget of around €14 million (Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book, another WWII film, had a budget of around €18 million). Through these three storylines, the film describes the events leading up to the Battle of the Scheldt, as lived through by these three fictional characters. He must now find his way to the Canadian Army lines. En route to Arnhem, Will’s glider is hit by Nazi cannon fire and falls in the Nazi-occupied flooded estuary of the Scheldt River. The British objective is to take Arnhem with Operation Market Garden. Meanwhile in Dorset, Will Sinclair (Jamie Flatters), a glider pilot, is training with the RAF. He was transferred to a desk job in Zeeland after being injured in battle out on the Russian front, serving as a Dutch member of the Wehrmacht infantry. headquarters, she meets a young Dutch soldier, Marinus van Staveren (Gijs Blom). After her brother Dirk (Ronald Kalter) is arrested by the Nazis, Teuntje turns to the resistance to try and save him.

Teuntje Visser (Susan Radder) works at the mayor’s office in Vlissingen on the island of Walcheren. Their stories intertwine throughout the film revealing different sides and perspectives from the same war. The film’s three main storylines concern a Dutch young man fighting for the Nazis, an English glider pilot, and a Zeeland girl who will reluctantly join the resistance. The three main characters The Forgotten Battle follows are not Canadian soldiers.

Battle in the forgotten city