Soldier of Orange (Dutch: Soldaat van Oranje, IPA: [sɔlˈdaːt fɑn oːˈrɑɲə]), released in the United Kingdom as Survival Run,[1] is a 1977 Dutch romantic war thriller film directed and co-written by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, based on Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema's autobiographical book of the same name.

[4][5] Set during World War II, the film is about students in Leiden, the Netherlands: Erik Lanshof, Guus LeJeune, Jan Weinberg, and Alex.

It begins with a flashforward: an immediately post war newsreel of Queen Wilhelmina returning to the Netherlands.

In September 1939, an English radio broadcast interrupts their tennis, announcing the declaration of war against Germany.

Initially, they are unalarmed, believing the Netherlands will remain neutral as in World War I. Jan, a Jew, and Alex, who is half German, join the Dutch Army.

Robby is in contact with the Dutch government-in-exile via a radio transmitter in his garden and offers Erik a flight to London.

Jan tells him, based on his interrogator's comment, that a Van der Zanden in London betrayed them.

Robby's radio is discovered, and he is forced to work for the Gestapo by their threat of deporting Esther, a Jew, to a labour camp.

However he is not a traitor, but head of the Dutch Central Intelligence Service and a private secretary to Queen Wilhelmina.

Erik becomes an RAF bomber pilot and is later appointed aide to Queen Wilhelmina, and accompanies her home.

Erik finds that Dutch citizens have cut off Esther's hair as punishment for her and Robby's collaboration.

Finally, Erik celebrates the end of the war with a fellow student, Jacques ten Brinck, who also survived.