I enjoyed watching this movie, which educated me about a story I had not heard about earlier. It's well acted, but the script is amateurish and the running time is unnecessarily long. What bothers me most is that other reviewers at this site treat it as if it's a documentary. It isn't. Just as other historically based movies alter the facts for dramatic purposes (see the book Past Imperfect), this one does so in three seemingly unnecessary ways: 1 the Nazis were largely unaware of the illegal bank and its operations, 2 even when he was arrested, they did not know about van Hall's specific involvement with the bank (he was arrested because he was in the resistance in general)l, and 3 he-and other resistors-were killed in retaliation for the assassination of a prominent Nazi. The changes are baffling, because the real facts seem to me to be as compelling as the fiction created in this film. Another fact that was left out is that proportionately, the Netherlands fielded the largest proportion of resistors based on population (after Poland) in all of Europe. The film is worth seeing especially if it is not regardedd as the "truth."
Review of The Resistance Banker
