Nr. 24 (2024)
Country: NOR
Technical: col 111m
Director: John Andreas Andersen
Cast: Sjur Vatne Brean, Erik Hivju, Philip Helgar
Synopsis:
The account by Gunnar Sønsteby of his time in the Norwegian Resistance during World War Two, as delivered to a body of school children, one of whom is the great nephew of the childhood friend he had killed.
Review:
Superbly vivid reconstruction, with precious little in the way of conventional heroics. The impression is of an uncommonly dirty business in which only total subservience to the cause in hand could render survival possible. Deeper moral questions are confronted during the school lecture in the modern sections of the film, but the abiding message is clear: war calls for black and white thinking, but it comes at a cost. Which makes the man's decision to share so deeply admirable.
Country: NOR
Technical: col 111m
Director: John Andreas Andersen
Cast: Sjur Vatne Brean, Erik Hivju, Philip Helgar
Synopsis:
The account by Gunnar Sønsteby of his time in the Norwegian Resistance during World War Two, as delivered to a body of school children, one of whom is the great nephew of the childhood friend he had killed.
Review:
Superbly vivid reconstruction, with precious little in the way of conventional heroics. The impression is of an uncommonly dirty business in which only total subservience to the cause in hand could render survival possible. Deeper moral questions are confronted during the school lecture in the modern sections of the film, but the abiding message is clear: war calls for black and white thinking, but it comes at a cost. Which makes the man's decision to share so deeply admirable.
Country: NOR
Technical: col 111m
Director: John Andreas Andersen
Cast: Sjur Vatne Brean, Erik Hivju, Philip Helgar
Synopsis:
The account by Gunnar Sønsteby of his time in the Norwegian Resistance during World War Two, as delivered to a body of school children, one of whom is the great nephew of the childhood friend he had killed.
Review:
Superbly vivid reconstruction, with precious little in the way of conventional heroics. The impression is of an uncommonly dirty business in which only total subservience to the cause in hand could render survival possible. Deeper moral questions are confronted during the school lecture in the modern sections of the film, but the abiding message is clear: war calls for black and white thinking, but it comes at a cost. Which makes the man's decision to share so deeply admirable.