
The East
A grim, morally fraught descent into colonial violence that weighs heavily and offers little relief.
- Directed by
- Jim Taihuttu
- Genres
- War, Drama, Thriller
- Starring
- Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari, Jonas Smulders
- Tagline
- A war between duty and conscience.
- Overview
- A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.
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- Directed by
- Jim Taihuttu
- Genres
- War, Drama, Thriller
- Starring
- Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari, Jonas Smulders


























