TITLE...........: Pastorale 1943 (1978) STARS...........: Frederik de Groot, Sylvia Kristel, Rutger Hauer DIRECTOR........: Wim Verstappen WRITERS.........: Wim Verstappen, Simon Vestdijk GENRE...........: Drama, War TOMATOMETER.....: 95 IMDB SCORE......: 6.7 IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078066 RUNTIME.........: 2h 08mn SIZE............: 8.46 GB VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4) BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION......: 1800x1080 ASPECT RATIO....: 1.66:1 FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps AUDIO1..........: Dutch FLAC 1.0 AUDIO2..........: Commentary by film professor Peter Verstraten (2021) SUBTITLES.......: ENG SOURCE..........: Cult Epics Blu-ray ENCODE DATE.....: 2026-02-04 Set in a village in the Betuwe region during the German occupation of the Netherlands, Verstappen’s wartime drama of the resistance eschews the usual heroic treatment of the subject, instead depicting a very human—and very often ill-organized—band of citizen spies, led by Frederik de Groot’s schoolteacher, in their often bumbling attempts to get rid of a local collaborator pharmacist. With Rutger Hauer as the de Groot character’s Nazi brother, Renée Soutendijk (Spetters, The Fourth Man) as a farmer’s daughter, and Kristal—who declined pay to play the part—as the local English teacher who may not be what she seems. A formidable hit in the Netherlands on release, and one of the finest works from the too-little-known Verstappen