MAX MANUS
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- MAX MANUS
- (FRIHEDSKAEMPEREN MAX MANUS)
- 2008, Espen Sandberg and Joachim Roenning, Norway, 118 min.
- With Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen
“A handsome big-budget production with lots of suspense and excitement...always engaging.”
—Peter Brunette, Hollywood Reporter
“Thoughtful and intelligent but still full of gripping action...entertaining and provocative.”
—Jennie Kermode, Eye for Film
This suspenseful WWII chronicle portrays its colorful hero with a grounded sense of reality, and grants the Nazis a rare psychological complexity. MAX MANUS is based on a true story that runs counter to the more usual tales of resistance exploits. Aksel Hennie, currently regarded as the best Norwegian actor of his generation, plays Max as a brash youth whose early cult fame owed to a daring escape following the bungling of an underground mission. A wiser but no less brash Max develops an intuitive talent for sabotage, wreaking havoc on the German fleet, but at a mounting personal price. In Norwegian, German, and English with English subtitles. 35mm. (BS)
