Sonny Boy

Sonny Boy (2011) is a Dutch war drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Maria Peters. Based on a true story: in 1930s Holland, Waldemar Nods — a young man from Suriname — falls for Rika van der Lans, a white Dutch woman seventeen years his senior with four children already in the house. By every social measure of the era, it shouldn't work. It does.

Sergio Hasselbaink and Ricky Koole play the couple without prettifying anything — the financial strain, the stares, the question of where a mixed-race family actually fits in pre-war Dutch society. When German occupation arrives in 1940, those private pressures become something far more dangerous. Peters stays close to the historical record; Dutch audiences already know how this ends, and that knowledge charges every quiet scene with a specific kind of dread.

Stream Sonny Boy online on iFILM.