World War II · Film · 2018
The Resistance Banker
Bankier van het verzet
An Amsterdam banker and his brother build a secret bank that keeps the Dutch Resistance and thousands of people in hiding alive, while the Nazis hunt for the man behind the money.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 2 places.
Stop 1: De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam
Key location
Under the nose of a Nazi-appointed bank president, Wally and Gijs turn Amsterdam's financial world into a shadow bank for the Resistance.
Stop 2: Haarlem
Betrayed and arrested under his alias, Wally faces the reprisal the Germans have prepared for him.
What really happened
Walraven van Hall was an Amsterdam stockbroker who, with his brother Gijs, organized the clandestine financing of the Dutch Resistance. His network supported the families of seamen and striking railway workers, people in hiding and Resistance groups, raising money through secret loans guaranteed by the government in exile in London.
Its boldest operation was a fraud at the Dutch central bank, where forged treasury certificates were swapped for real ones to raise tens of millions of guilders. Van Hall was arrested in January 1945 and executed in Haarlem on 12 February, three months before the liberation. The film compresses the story and invents some characters.
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Full details
- Original title
- Bankier van het verzet
- Directed by
- Joram Lürsen
- Countries
- Netherlands, Belgium
- Languages
- Dutch, German
- Released
- 2018
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Western Europe
- Themes
- Resistance
- Biography
- True story
