2011 · crime · thriller · true-story
The Heineken Kidnapping
Directed by Maarten Treurniet2h 0m2011
On a cold November day in 1983, beer magnate Alfred Heineken and his chauffeur Ab Doderer are abducted. What follows is the most infamous kidnapping case the Netherlands have ever known.
Our read: The Heineken Kidnapping (2011) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · thriller · true-story entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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