Hij wordt neergeslagen door overvallers, maar wordt gered door de mooie en stoere Jenne. Zij maakt deel uit van een kinderkruistocht, achtduizend kinderen die op weg zijn naar Jeruzalem om de stad te bevrijden van de Arabieren. Elke week wordt het ruime aanbod uitgebreid met de nieuwste films, ook in HD kwaliteit. Alle films zijn voorzien van Nederlandse ondertiteling.
De vijftienjarige Dolf gebruikt een prototype van een tijdmachine en belandt tegen zijn wil in de Middeleeuwen. Read more. Subscribe via email. By steemr op oktober 31, Dit e-mailen Dit bloggen! Labels: , Avontuur , Fantasie , film nederlands Online , Historisch , kijken volledige. Poor souls. I'm sure they tried.
They had meetings. Lots of meetings. They must have discussed everything, leaving the artists empty handed, or worse, "managed". Tell you what, they didn't manage. They failed. Well, my vote says it all I read the book as a child, well, I listened and my parents read it to me And it was a great, moving and touching story. But the Dutch movie-industry did the same to it as what they have done with Floris the TV series , they made an awful movie out of it.
I hate it because: -The plot was changed -important characters were cut out -every excitement was banned -they even put a 15th century armour on the one of the villains I loved the artwork at the end of the movie.
Now they are working on making a movie of "Brief aan de Koning" Letter to the King - another great book about a boy who got a mission, just on the evening before he would be knighted I hope Pieter Verhoef will make a decent movie for a change. Im watching this as I type I know it supposedly based off a children's book,and i never read it, but this does not stand as a good movie. The characters are annoying.
I don't know if its pushing religion through the female lead, or if its making fun of people who follow religion blindly. And yes, i get it, he's from the present, he's a fish out of water. Its been done. A lot. Oh, and he trades in an MP3 player for bread supplies? Thats just Kids look too healthy. Acting is really dumb. No one is likable. Female lead is kinda cute. I waited for ages to watch this film, because as a lover of the book which is highly recommendable for both older children and adults, in Dutch or in translation I was afraid to be disappointed - and I was.
The director who made some very qualitative other movies was aiming at a younger audience than the mid teens that the book was meant for, andfor that group, he did a good job. It's an adventure film which is at the same time quite historically accurate and informative for that age group.
For me and my contemporaries who read the book in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and who think back to it with great love, the film is an abasement. Many plot lines were changed. Some choices are understandable: women get a bigger role than they did in the book for example, technology has changed, and some parts of the story had to be left out so that the film wouldn't be too long.
Some choices are less understandable, but probably sounded good when they were argued for by the scriptwriter: the main protagonist Dolf's personality has been changed substantially, many characters have been written out, new plots have been introduced. None of it works. The plot is incoherent, very unbelievable and lacks suspense. The acting is poor. The costumes are completely unbelievable because they are just too clean and new.
The locations are also too clean. But mostly, the props annoyed me, especially the medieval paper and books - somebody learned how to make paper by hand and then reckoned that was enough to make it look medieval. But the thing that irritated me most was the fact that the two hundred odd extras playing the children in the crusade look like happy, well-fed, healthy children in a high budget school play rather than the ill, starving, dirty, wild, desperate children that Thea Beckman portrayed so powerfully in her book.
I'm not saying they should have starved the child actors, obviously that's impossible. Nor am I saying they should have stuck to all the original twists and turns in Thea Beckman's plot, that would also have been impossible. You see, making this book into a film There were a lot of bad choices made when making this film. The casting director, costume director, scriptwriter, and of course the director himself all made some bad choices.
Would other choices have made for a better film? Would they have made for a good film? In the end, the only important bad choice for this film was the very first one: the choice to make it. Possible Spoilers Wow Basically by changing the story, leaving out all the best loved characters and turning it into a romance movie Thea Beckman wrote a story about friendship, perseverance, hardship and love.
The movie just left out all the characters that made this be. Where's Frank with his total loyalty? Where's Peter with his awesome toughness??
Where's Leonardo with his wry sense of humor? Where's Mariecke who became symbolic of Dolf's love of the other children, his need to protect them, his wake-up call to the hardships of medieval life? I mean where are my darn characters? Where's my darn story??
The budget was small yes, but that shouldn't have been a problem. This adaptation was never supposed to be about looks and special effects.
Romance wasn't part of the friggin' deal. It should have been about a 15 year old who finds himself in an impossible situation. Who met honorable people and who gave something back. The whole point of the book was not that the 20th century rocked and how we've got all kinds of cool gadgets. It was about what we've learned from the past like responsibility and individual talent and what we've forgotten a sense of community feeling, loyalty, togetherness.
I guess I'm saying that for someone who's read the book this adaptation is just not the way it went down. Imangine if Charlotte got together with Wilbur at some point in the movie adaption.
That just wrong and that's what they did with this movie! I know why Emily had a reason to play a smaller role than the main one. Because she was several months pregnant with first child.
You could see her growing belly. She hid her pregnancy all the time. Her daughter was born in November Filming date began in June Bernie 18 November I just saw crusade in Jeans, and have to say it really impressed especially if you take in to account the low budget 12 million dollars that the production had to deliver the epic feel.
I truly hope that this movie takes of internationally so that the 2 trilogy's that she wrote can be made into really extravagant and big productions that can truly deliver the epic feel that I had when I read those books. But back to crusade in Jeans even though some adaptations where made for the big screen it still stays very true to the original story and also delivers a great feel of the middle age period.
I truly liked the way the ipod is used in the movie but also the gradual change from modern western clothing until the complete change towards middle aged clothing. There not much to improve about the movie although a thought that a couple of effects could have been done a bit more believable. All in all a great movie to see, go see it or get it on DVD when it's released. Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek is filmed by a predominantly English cast and with a for Dutch standards large budget; although it is not a Dutch but an international co-production.
The result is a film with an international look and feel, and has an appeal for both adults that have read or not the well-known book with the same name by the author Thea Beckman. As the book has a very short introduction as well as quite an abrupt ending, the movie has added both a genuine introduction for the lead character to go to the past and also dealt with the end being less abrupt. But also without having read the book the film itself is a very entertaining family film where both parents but also the children can be entertained.
It's quite a long film with a total playing time of over 2 hours but never has a dull moment with good digital graphics. I went to this movie with 3 of my friends, and I would lie if I said it was great. Though, most of the characters and story lines in the book had been replaced and I thought that was pityful.. For example, the character Leonardo doesn't appear in the book and the entire ending has been replaced. If you read the book, I would be a fool to say you should not go to the movie, since my dad is the producer :-P.
Take your time to watch it, just don't get to much expectations. I've read the book when I was a little boy, read it again when I became an adult and read it a few times more during my adulthood. But after watching the movie I really felt like tossing it out again as quick as I can. It starts out totally different from what's written years ago. The main characters are quite far off the ones they are in the book also, which does change the whole story significantly. I couldn't find any sensible traces of how Dolf coming from the future actually used his nowadays knowledge to constructively help out the children's crusade on their long path to certain doom.
There are hardly any signs of Dolf struggling with the authority of the Priest Anselmus yet another crucial thing in the original story. This filmmaker would make Thea Beckman the original writer turn in her grave if she would be able to watch the movie in her afterlife. Dolf is not the kind of heroic boy in the movie at all, strange new characters pop up, filling in roles which aren't supposed to be there at all and mainly twist the original into an ugly looking toilet paper story.
This is by far the most awful translation from book to movie I've ever seen. Simply horrible. I just wish I'd never seen it For all of those who really love the book and know it from childhood like I do steer clear from this production even though the package might catch your attention.
I have read the other comments here and unlike most of the people who spoke up, I have not read the book. So, here's an unbiased opinion of the movie, by itself, as a movie. First off, I loved the actors. They got across the right feel of their characters and I didn't even guess who the bad guy was until halfway through the film.
Yes, this is more of a kids movie, a kind of fairy tale myth, but I felt that it was more than good enough to sit and watch, even with my views on religion. Someone mentioned that the kids didn't look like they were starving, but I say that they did when they were supposed to. They stopped looking starved when Dolf was able to convince the people in charge to let him help.
No, it didn't show him sectioning the kids into groups and teaching them what to do, and that disappointed me because they went to all that trouble, lying about who he was and standing up to the bullies, and we didn't get to see the immediate results.
But, we do see the ending result of the kids looking healthier, happier, and better all around. No show of Dolf's intelligence? He convinced Nicholas to let them do several important things, convinced the Lord to let them take grain enough to bake bread till sunrise.
Traded his IPod to get the baker to help them, figured out who the bad guy was in the end. Remembered to put a marker in the spot where the time warp spot was. Do you really think all that doesn't show his intelligence and the respect he earned? He may not be the Dolf from the book, but for the movie he's a great character.
Part of the point of a movie - of any story, really, but in movies its shown more - is the growing of a character. Dolf does start off a bit of a brat, a bit whiny. But he learns and grows, and in the process alters history for the better. What more could you ask for in this kind of story. I also tried to take into consideration that this is a children's book published in the s. But honestly I felt like I had to push myself to finish this book. I was not very engaged by the writing style, and while the overall concept is very cool, I was never impressed by any of the characters.
Glad I read it all the same, but I just overall did not care too much for it. View 1 comment. An absolutely stunning book. I am somewhat prejudiced, since i love this writer. I would also recommend it to adults. Maybe it was the fact that it was written back in , but I found this story a bit hard to believe. Now I know that it's not a true story, however there were too many instances where I felt the reader needed to stretch their imagination in order to accept it.
Furthermore, his ability to communicate with the people from this time, where he understands them and they understand him, is also questionable. But the most significant area where this story falls apart is where Rudolf Hefting attempts to return to the rock that he landed in order to return home, but is shoved off and is then stranded in the past. Dolf's reaction to this is virtually one of absolute acceptance, so much so that he picks himself up and joins a Children's Crusade that is passing through at the time.
How is it that a fifteen year old boy would not be in tears and fearing for his life when faced with the possibility of never returning back to his time period and never seeing his family and friends again?
I found this whole part of the story very unrealistic. There are still many parts where I found myself questioning whether a fifteen-year-old would behave in this way and also questioned the experiences that Dolf apparently had in his fifteen years of life.
Dolf apparently knew the landscape, as though the world had not really changed other than possibly a few roads being missing ; his sense of direction was impeccable. Dolf stood up to the leaders of the crusade and thrust himself in the leadership role without any real reservations; even though the majority of people following him were children, he still took on adults without any real repercussions.
The most puzzling scene I thought was when Dolf decided that he should come up with a plan to infiltrate a castle in order to rescue some children that were taken by the lord of that castle. How could a mere child have such tactical understanding that he would be able to infiltrate a castle full of soldiers and rescue the prisoners? He was not a military man boy and, as far as I know, he was not brought up in a military family - so for Dolf to devise such a plan would be near impossible to believe.
That said, once you get your head around all of the remarkable things that Dolf seems to be able to conquer and achieve, the book is entertaining and is a decent read for teenagers who may not question the realism of it as much as adults.
Thanks to Eline for doing this buddyread with me. This book is a real classic in The Netherlands, so I was glad I finally got to read it. Maybe my hopes were to high, because I was disappointed by this book, and so was my buddy.
We were glad this was a buddyread, because we weren't sure if we'd keep reading if we would be reading it by ourselves. Full review can be found at BiteIntoBooks Maybe my hopes for this real Dutch classic were way too high.
I was a little bit disappointed by the book. It i Thanks to Eline for doing this buddyread with me. It is an adventurous story and definitely learns you more about the Middle Ages in Europe. I would've loved to care a bit more for the characters. Now I just shrugged when a character died. English title: Crusade in Jeans A classic Dutch children's book. I thought I had read it when I was a child, but nothing sounded familiar, so maybe not? The book is about a boy, Dolf, who is transported to the middle ages with a time machine.
The plan was for him to be there for a few hours, but things went wrong and he ends up stuck in Germany in the year He joins a children's crusade to Jerusalem and quickly finds his place between children. So one thing you should know when you are g English title: Crusade in Jeans A classic Dutch children's book.
So one thing you should know when you are going to read this book is that it is written in So some things that are being said in the story would never end up in children's books nowadays. Also, A LOT of children die in this book. And with a lot I mean they are dropping like flies. I like that it teaches you about the middle ages and I haven't checked all the facts Beckman has written in this book, but I assume she has done her research.
I know that the crusade they talked about really existed and it was called a children's crusade, but apparently there were also a lot of grownups in the real crusade. It was fun to have read this book again? Not sure if children would still enjoy this nowadays.
Very happy I read this again. I remember the main plot of the story from reading it as a kid, but I'd forgotten most of the details. It's still one of the best historical books I've read Very happy I read this again. It's still one of the best historical books I've read Came across one of the favourite books from my childhood going through boxes of books in the attic, which I have yet to move to the UK.
Reading this now, I can see how messy and rushed the beginning is; no time is wasted jumping into the 13th century crusade. Once having time-travelled there, Dolf struggles for what appears to be a few days learning the "language" Diets; even the 8, German children who came from various areas must've spoken various dialects, variations of this unstandardized Came across one of the favourite books from my childhood going through boxes of books in the attic, which I have yet to move to the UK.
Once having time-travelled there, Dolf struggles for what appears to be a few days learning the "language" Diets; even the 8, German children who came from various areas must've spoken various dialects, variations of this unstandardized language. If you look beyond the plot holes, the implausibility of the speed of things, this is a captivating read even as an adult! View 2 comments. Crusade in Jeans is a children's novel written by Thea Beckman.
It contains a fictional account of the children's crusade of , as witnessed by Rudolph Wega, a boy from the 20th century. The original Dutch title is Kruistocht in spijkerbroek.
Rudolph Wega is a sixteen year-old who volunteers for an experiment with a time machine. The experiment goes well, but through an accident Rudolph is stranded in the 13th century. He saves the life of Leonardo Fibonacci, without realizing who he is Crusade in Jeans is a children's novel written by Thea Beckman.
He saves the life of Leonardo Fibonacci, without realizing who he is, and teaches him Arabic numerals. Together they join the German Children's Crusade, and through his modern-day knowledge, Rudolph manages to save a lot of children from horrible fates. However, his knowledge also leads to accusations of witchcraft. In the book, two slavers delude a group of children into coming with them with stories of how the innocent shall liberate Jerusalem.
Their actual intent is to sell them for profit. With the aid of his twentieth-century knowledge and skepticism, and the aid of a "magical" device or two such as a box of matches , the boy manages to keep most of the children alive and eventually gets them to safety.
I was drawn in by this book to a dangerous level. I was currently in Tokyo at the time and kept bumping into busy people rushing to the train because I couldn't put the book down. It captures a bit of wonder that is sometimes lost in the serious books of today. It's quite bittersweet, and you half expect the ending but then you're also kind of surprised by it too.
I loved this book. A teenage boy travels back in time and finds himself in the middle of the Children's Crusade in He quickly becomes an advocate for the children and an important member of the group, helping them through famine, disease, and battles with local peasants and townspeople.
He never believes in the mission, really, and from the beginning something doesn't feel right to him about the entire business, so he works to discover what the wrongness is and then fights for the safety of the children. It w A teenage boy travels back in time and finds himself in the middle of the Children's Crusade in It was rough at the beginning the book jumps right into the story without any sort of lead-up or introduction to the characters or situation, and not in a way that seems well thought-out , but once the story gets going, it's a decent one.
Another of the children's books that has stuck with me through the years. I can remember seeing it on the shelves of Leslie Park Public school. I can remember reading it, and being thoroughly engrossed by it. But I remember it being rather realistic about language problems and hunger and the violence encountered by the Children's Crusade. And the complete confusion when the hero is finally rescued, but has Another of the children's books that has stuck with me through the years.
And the complete confusion when the hero is finally rescued, but has become so absorbed into the past that he's forgotten his language. It always maybe want to read a story about his life after returning to his own time. There is no way I could ever give this book less than 5 stars. I fell in love with it when I read it the first time, all those years ago and with every time I reread it, I loved it just as much.
Even when I see now, as an adult in this time, that it might be a bit outdated, that it portrayed the people in the middle ages as something like noble savages, I still love the characters, the stories. I still cry at certain points, and I love the overall message that everyone has their talents, has wor There is no way I could ever give this book less than 5 stars.
I still cry at certain points, and I love the overall message that everyone has their talents, has worth, no matter how much they are hidden because of expectations of society or standing. Nov 27, Cheryl is busier irl atm. Probably read it with the Children's Books group. I remember liking it more than I thought I would. I also thought of it as more HF than SF.
Reminded of it today because a member of the SFF group says it's the book that got them started on SF Kruistocht in spijkerbroek crusade in jeans is a childhood favorite of mine, i remember my dad reading this to me night after night, even though I didn't remember any of the events actually in this book.
It's about a boy who gets 'transmitted' to the year of , and then something goes wrong and he can't get back to this own time, so he decides to join the children's crusade. It really was a fun story with a very large, sweeping scope and lots of adventures, the only things I didn't like were Kruistocht in spijkerbroek crusade in jeans is a childhood favorite of mine, i remember my dad reading this to me night after night, even though I didn't remember any of the events actually in this book.
It really was a fun story with a very large, sweeping scope and lots of adventures, the only things I didn't like were that the ending seemed way too convient, and that the main character never seemed to have any feelings about being displaced in time, and things like never seeing his parents again This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. In the 20th century, a sixteen-year-old boy, Dolf Wega van Amstelveen, is sent back in time to the Middle Ages.
Instead of a knight tournament he wanted to witness in Montgivray, he ends up in Speyer Germany. Without a way of returning to his own century, he is forced to join a crusade of children, who hope to scare the Saracens and save Jerusalem.
With his twentieth-century knowledge, Dolf manages to organize the mess of eight thousand children into a well-structured organization, and forms t In the 20th century, a sixteen-year-old boy, Dolf Wega van Amstelveen, is sent back in time to the Middle Ages. With his twentieth-century knowledge, Dolf manages to organize the mess of eight thousand children into a well-structured organization, and forms teams to catch fish, hunt for prey, make shoes and protect the youth.
He saves more than fifty children captured the day before. He also convinces the leaders to change the route as traveling over the mountains will kill many.
Their journey takes longer, but is saver now, the loss of life less significant. Close to Genua the real purpose of the journey becomes clear when the monks traveling with them reveal that the children are about to be shipped to Africa, where they can serve as slaves. The money they were promised was their reason to organize the crusade and trick children to travel with them. The leading monk is killed by angry children and the army finds it way further down into Italy, while about one thousand return to their homeland.
The road ends in Bari and Brindisi, without a way to continue their trip to Jerusalem. Their numbers were reduced over months to fifteen hundred. The remaining children find work, become citizens and live their life in their new-found places. It is here a box is sent from the future with a message, the possibility of a return to the future.
Upon his return, after all these months, with all these children and all they had to do to survive, Dolf is finally able to see his parents' faces ago in the century he belongs. This book is clearly written for children because whatever happens, hero Dolf solves the problems and makes the day.
Things happen with ease and no problem seems to get the upper hand. A nice book to have read once, but not one worth reading again. On the other hand, seeing this book's target group it is well written into an exciting story.
That being said this book might get children interested a little more in history and the Middle Ages in particular.
I read this book in Dutch in the's when I studied to be a children's librarian. Recently, almost 40 years later of which 30 years spent in the USA , I decided to read the English translation, called "Crusade in Jeans". I even vaguely remember attending reading by Thea Beckman, but I don't know which book.
One of the main reasons the book gained so much acclaim 40 years ago, was Beckman's use of the Dutch language. Her writing was crisp, clear and simple.
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