Den 12. Mann (2017)
Genre: War
Duration: 135 minuten
Alternative title: The 12th Man
Country:
Norway
Directed by: Harald Zwart
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Thomas Gullestad and Marie Blokhus
IMDb score:
7,3 (30.784)
Releasedate: 25 December 2017
Den 12. Mann plot
"Based on a true story of survival and hope"
Troms, far above the Arctic Circle in Northern Norway. It is March 1943 and the vast landscape is slowly awakening from the third dark winter under the Nazi regime. 12 Norwegian resistance fighters have boarded a small fishing boat in Scotland. They have crossed the treacherous North Sea to return to their beloved land to fight the enemy. However, they are betrayed by Norwegian collaborators and the boat is sunk. 11 of the 12 men are captured and eventually, after gruesome torture, killed by the Germans. The 25-year-old Jan Baalsrud is the only one who manages to escape. But now he has to survive.
Actors and actresses
Jan Baalsrud
Kurt Stage
Gudrun Grønvoll
Marius Grønnvoll
Walter Wenders
Sigurd Eskeland
Erik Reichelt
Per Blindheim
Gabriel Salvesen
Sjur Ludvigsen Trovåg
Reviews & comments
Alathir
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- 2110 messages
- 1624 votes
I think everything has already been said here. Fantastic direction by Harald Zwart, with a great soundtrack and impressive acting performances. Jan Baalsrud's performance is magnificent and at one point reminded me of Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant (2015) . It gets a bit long-winded here and there, but all in all this is a very good film about a Norwegian saboteur. Survival film through and through in World War II. I did wonder what information could be so important that you deploy troops for months to find this man, that all remains rather vague. It has also been filmed fairly truthfully (I have read a bit about the person Jan Baalsrud).
Some images are a bit more risqué and may not be for those with sensitive stomachs.
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james_cameron
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- 6567 messages
- 9479 votes
Exciting, intense war film with a simple but effective story. Beautifully portrayed; the desolate norwegian landscape looks imposing and contributes infinitely to the atmosphere of the whole. The cast is fine too, with interesting characters on both the Allied and German sides. Main character Thomas Gullestad has a hard time: I have rarely seen someone suffer so much in a film.
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blurp194
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- 4926 messages
- 3843 votes
An icy cat-and-mouse game between the resistance hero Jan Baalsrud and the ambitious Nazi Kurt Stage. What Baalsrud has to endure is increasingly beyond credibility, but it really happened that way, and how far that went may become a bit clear when you read that he spent more than six months in hospital after his ordeal. Or at least, as the film reports, three months - as if that isn't already unprecedentedly long.
As you would expect from a film set in that region - and largely in the open air - the images are overwhelmingly beautiful. Also a bit frightening here and there, it just made me cold myself.
It's also nice that everyone speaks the right language, although I must say that Rhys Meyers' accent sometimes sounds a bit strange. Worse is that his dialogues apparently were not written by someone who learned German as Muttersprache - there are quite a few sentences that a real German would never utter. Yet it hardly disturbs, and it comes across much better than if he had spoken 'normal' English. And yes, a German actor could also have been done, of course, but Rhys Meyers has exactly the right sinister appearance - and therefore actually a more interesting role than Thomas Gullestad, who almost only gets to do physical acting. To suffer as a verb and facial expression.
As a possible explanation for Stage's fanaticism in getting the 12th man at all costs, it occurs to me that shortly before this piece of history the well-known raid on the heavy-water factory at Vemork had happened. But that is my own explanation, I do not immediately see any references to it in the more initiated sources.
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