History Film / TheResistanceBanker

''The Resistance Banker'' (Dutch: ''Bankier van het verzet'') is a Dutch film from 2018.

It focuses on brothers Walraven van Hall (Creator/BarryAtsma) and Gijs van Hall (Jacob Derwig), who set up a network to finance the Dutch resistance during the Second World War.

* LaResistance: The wealthy branch of it. The main characters don't go around sabotaging, spreading forbidden news papers, let people hide in their house or striking, but they do help finance a lot of it.

* WorthlessCurrency: To maintain accounts on the people who have donated money to LaResistance, yet not leave evidence that can enable to German occupiers to identify them, Walraven gives them worthless shares from Czarist Russia which no-one will pay attention to, yet can be handed in for reimbursement after the war, each share being the equivalent of 1000 guilders. The serial numbers of the shares sold have been noted down by Walraven, but it's just a meaningless string of numbers.

* DangerouslyCloseShave: Inverted as it actually saves Walraven. He is about to meet a resistance contact, when a barber suddenly drags him into a shop and starts shaving him. It soon becomes clear the Germans were hiding and had already arrested his contact. Without the barber, Walraven would have walked right into a trap. When the Germans shoot the man they arrested right outside the shop the barber's hand is shaking, though he doesn't cut Walraven because he stops at that point.

* InfiniteSupplies: Averting this is the entire subject of the movie. Funding resistance activities and supporting the families of those who have fled the country costs a ''lot'' of money, and personal charity by patriotic citizens is not enough. The FramingDevice that runs through the movie is Gijs being called to account by the Belgian government after the war--they have a MassOhCrap on finding that almost ''100 million guilders'' have been spent (which they're expected to pay back) when the GovernmentInExile only authorised 30 million.

* DangerouslyCloseShave: The non-lethal version. Walraven is about to meet a resistance contact, when a barber suddenly drags him into a shop and starts shaving him. It soon becomes clear the Germans were hiding and had already arrested his contact. Without the barber, Walraven would have walked right into a trap. When the Germans shoot the man they arrested right outside the shop the barber's hand is shaking, though he doesn't cut Walraven because he stops at that point.

* BilingualBonus: The Germans speak German. Some of the Dutch people speak German too.

* LaResistance: The wealthy branch of it. The main characters don't go around sabotaging, spreading forbidden news papers, let people hide in their house or striking, but they do help finance a lot of it.
* LesCollaborateurs
** Meinoud Rost van Tonningen, whom the Germans have [[TheQuisling placed in charge of the Dutch Central Bank]].
** When Walraven approaches the head of the Dutch national railway about organising a strike, the conversation gets heated when he dismisses them as "adventurers". Walraven points out he's been happy to make millions shipping Jews off to the death camps for the Germans, and is only going along with the strike to ingratiate himself with the GovernmentInExile now that the Allies are winning.

* CodeName:
** "Van Tuyl" for Walraven. This name gets dragged out of a tortured resistance member, but it doesn't mean anything to the Germans then. Even when they finally capture Walraven, it takes the Germans a while to figure out who he is.
** The Dutch naval officer who first recruits Walraven goes by the name of "Van den Berg".
* LesCollaborateurs
** Meinoud Rost van Tonningen, whom the Germans have [[TheQuisling placed in charge of the Dutch Central Bank]].
** When Walraven approaches the head of the Dutch national railway about organising a strike, the conversation gets heated when he dismisses them as mere "adventurers". Walraven points out he's been happy to make millions shipping Jews off to the death camps for the Germans, and is only going along with the strike to ingratiate himself with the GovernmentInExile.

* LesCollaborateurs
** Meinoud Rost van Tonningen, whom the Germans have [[TheQuisling placed in charge of the Dutch Central Bank]].
** When Walraven approaches the head of the Dutch national railway about organising a strike, the conversation gets heated when he dismisses them as mere "adventurers". Walraven points out he's been happy to make millions shipping Jews off to the death camps for the Germans, and is only going along with the strike to ingratiate himself with the GovernmentInExile.

** London has ordered a nationwide railway strike. The leader of the railway corporation assures Walraven that they have an emergency fund to cover the wages of the striking workers for an estimated three weeks until the war ends. This is in September 1944. Walraven isn't assured the war will end that quickly, and therefore has to get hold of the millions required.

* ForensicAccounting: Averted; Meinoud has to go to the SD to use their methods to track down the Resistance banking organisation, the brothers having worked out a covert means of record keeping involving worthless stocks and fake insurance forms.

* InfiniteSupplies: Averting this is the entire subject of the movie. Funding resistance activies and supporting the families of those who have fled the country costs a ''lot'' of money, and personal charity by patriotic citizens is not enough. The FramingDevice that runs through the movie is Gijs being called to account by the Belgian government after the war--they have a MassOhCrap on finding that almost ''100 million guilders'' have been spent (which they're expected to pay back) when the GovernmentInExile only authorised 30 million.

* TheQuisling: Meinoud Rost van Tonningen, whom the Germans have placed in charge of the Dutch Central Bank.