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Feature Film / War Drama / 2018

Max Manus

After fighting the communists in Finland, Max Manus returns to Norway, currently occupied by the Nazis. He joins with the Norwegian resistance movement in their fight against the Germans but is arrested.

He manages to escape to Scotland, where he receives training before being sent back to Norway to carry out sabotage missions against the occupying forces. Returning to Norway with his friend Gregers Gram, his first mission is an attack on German supply ships.

He is spectacularly successful, and soon he become a special target for the Gestapo commander Siegfried Wolfgang Fehmer. Manus, however, avoids capture, and with Gram and Gunnar Sønsteby he forms the so-called “Oslo Group.”

Stockholm becomes a meeting point for Norwegians in allied military service. Here Gram introduces Manus to Tikken, who works as a Norwegian contact for the British consulate, and the two soon develop a special relationship. 

Facts

Directors Espen Sandberg & Joachim Rønning

Writer Thomas Nordseth-Tiller

Main cast Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ken Duken, Christian Rubeck

Producers  John M. Jacobsen & Sveinung Golimo

Executive Producers  Jonas Allen & Peter Bose

Format Feature Film

Genre War Drama

Original Title Max Manus

Original Language Norwegian

Produced by Miso Film Norway

International Sales TrustNordisk