Jahrgang ’45

They were turbulent times back in the Netherlands in 1966. A smoke bomb disrupted the festivities surrounding the Royal Wedding of Princess Beatrix and her husband Claus, parents were robbed of their authority, students demanded democratic reform and personal growth was the key to everything. Even in Walter Ulbricht’s German Democratic Republic, never a model of liberalism, things were beginning to shake up. Film NL dives into the past.