Short Film School graduation movie situated in 1945.
The story is about 2 young friends who discover a left behind German soldier in their recently liberated town.
He is hiding and wants to go home, he takes the two boys hostage and forces them them to escort him to the Dutch-German border.
One of the boys has lost his big brother during the war, shot by the Germans, but this German looks like his brother and he isn't so bad.
His friend on the other hand hates all Germans and feels this is his chance to become a resistance hero.
A long and dangerous journey begins trough war torn Holland.
For this production we mostly took care of the research and participated in set-dressing a abandoned German Headquarters and a liberated street in a small town, including extra's, Canadian soldiers, a Jeep, etc.

This short film was broadcast by the AVRO on Dutch national television on memorial day.
The press was very enthusiastic about the film and about the general appearance that we helped create.

 

The boys discover the left behind German soldier.

 

Canadian soldiers race by in a Jeep with a high ranking German prisoner.

 

A Dutch police officer on his bicycle stops the boys and the German soldier, but not realizing what is going on he lets them go again.

A review in a national paper written by acclaimed movie writer Hans Beerekamp:

"It is remarkable how much German is spoken in this years graduation films.
This is logical in 'Goodbye', one of the few traditional-realistic movies, that is situated in 1945, shortly after the liberation, when two Dutch boys are taken hostage by a left behind German soldier.
Director Joeri Teeuwisse makes a spotless historical reconstruction and succeeds with great understanding of the subject to mix together all dilemmas of collaboration and resistance into a unexpected context that was very well filmed."

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