Gaston's War is a Belgian 1997 drama film directed by Robbe De Hert and starring Werner De Smedt, Mapi Galán and Peter Firth. Based on a novel by Allan Mayer, the film is set many decades after the Second World War, and tells the story of a Belgian resistance fighter, Gaston Vandermeerssche, who tries to discover who betrayed them to the Nazis.
The movie was nominated for a Golden Goblet at the 1997 Shanghai International Film Festival.
Main cast
Werner De Smedt as Gaston Vandermeerssche
Mapi Galán as Veronique
Stuart Laing as Harry
Oliver Windross as Doug
Peter Firth as Major Smith
Christian Crahay as Hachez
Olivia Williams as Nicky
Lukas Smolders as Louis
Clive Swift as General James
Marilou Mermans as Farmer's wife
René van Asten as Van der Waals
Sylvia Kristel as Miep Visser
Stefan Perceval as German soldier
Gert-Jan Dröge as Cohen
Serge Marechal as Frenchman