Adaptation
In 2001 the book was made into a movie by Jeroen Krabbé. Mulisch allowed the film on one condition: the English comedian Stephen Fry should play Onno Quist. The humour of both men also is rather similar. The rest was left up to Krabbé. Krabbé didn't keep very close to the book and removed some of the longer pieces (especially regarding the friendship between Max and Onno and the youth of Quinten) and changed some events for dramatic reasons.
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