Ciske the Rat (1984)

Ciske the Rat, starring a young Dutch singer with an amazing voice, Danny De Munk, is without doubt one of the most moving childhood stories ever captured on film.
The film is set in Amsterdam in 1934. Eleven-year-old Ciske (nickname of a boy named Franciskus) is a restless child, whose childhood is in troubled wartime, and even in an incomplete family, with divorced parents. His father, a merchant sailor, is never at home and not at all is raising an only son- albeit an irritable, but kind-hearted child. Tsiske is constantly haunted by trouble both at school and on the street. Gradually, minor troubles develop into a real disaster and only a few adults, who really care about the fate of the boy, can help Tsiska get out of this situation and not fall completely to the very bottom of the abyss of far from childish problems that the child had to face ... Based on the trilogy Pet Bakker's bestselling book, "Ciske the Rat" will make you laugh, cry, scream and marvel at how one little boy can capture your heart and make you really worry about his fate ...