Godforsaken
2003 Dutch drama film directed by Pieter Kuijpers
Godforsaken (Dutch: Van God Los) is a 2003 Dutch drama film directed by Pieter Kuijpers from a screenplay he co-wrote with Paul Jan Nelissen. It stars Tygo Gernandt, Angela Schijf, and Egbert Jan Weeber.
The film received a Golden Film (100,000 visitors), and won three Golden Calves.
Plot
Stan Meijer is a teenage boy living in a small town in the southern Netherlands in the 1990s. Unhappy at home and distant from his mother and stepfather, he becomes friends with local criminal Mike Verheije. Mike is secretly dating Anna, whose parents disapprove of him, and Stan helps the couple meet. Through Mike, his younger brother Yuri, and their drug-using friend Sef, Stan becomes involved in petty crime and the illegal trade in equipment used for growing cannabis. During this period, Stan also finds his biological father, Bert Mulder, and asks to live with him, but Bert dies in a road accident before they can develop their relationship. After Mike is released from jail, Sef tells him that cannabis grower Johan Schreurs keeps a large amount of cash at his home. Mike and Stan attempt to rob Schreurs, but the robbery goes wrong and Schreurs is killed.
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