A long wait for disappointment. The rawness, hunger, oppression and social deprivation that make the original story so strong have been exchanged for the holywood type of violence and sensation. Belgium, which has a kick film industry, delivers a production that leaves the harsh realism and turns to the rather dull international standards of historical drama. Novel character Tincke has a name 'that sounds like chinking coins' and he looks like a mean traitor not like a movie star. The people in the forest are starving, they are like animals, not like movie stars. If writers, casting director and art direction would have been more in line with the scenario of the, rather brilliant, comic strip by Nagel, it would have become an indestructible series.
Review of Thieves of the Wood
