The Assault
Feb 06, 1986 | IMDB 6.7
144 min Watch NowHistory, Drama, War
At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.
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