THE first thing they teach in spy school is never to fall in love with somebody on the other side because you may be called on to fire a bullet into that person’s forehead. In the Danish thriller ...
World War II movies about the European Resistance cover a wide range, from the romantic (“Casablanca”) to the outrageous (“Inglourious Basterds”) to the tragic (“Army of Shadows”). An engrossing new ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A few years ago, after I reviewed the re-release of the French Resistance classic "Army of Shadows," a reader e-mailed me and ...
After the end of World War II, all Danish boys wanted to be Flame and Citron -- two of the county’s famed resistance fighters who died during the war. Bent Faurschou-Hviid and Jorgen Haagen Schmith ...
Code-named Flammen and Citronen, the two protagonists of Ole Christian Madsen’s “Flame & Citron” are Resistance fighters in World War II-era, Nazi-occupied Copenhagen whose job is to assassinate Nazis ...
“Flame” and “Citron”—aka Bent Faurschou-Hviid and Jorgen Haagen Schmith—were the most celebrated members of the Holger Danske resistance group, which carried out numerous sabotage and assassination ...
Mads Mikkelsen (left) and Thure Lindhardt play great Danes. FLAME & CITRON (Mongrel, 2008) D: Ole Christian Madsen, w/ Mads Mikkelsen, Thure Lindhardt. Rating: NNNN DVD package: n/a Rating: NNNN Two ...
THE FASCINATION of film- makers with the second World War continues unabated, triggering the narratives of four movies already released here this year ( The Reader, Defiance, Valkyrie, The Unborn) and ...
Denmark unleashes a big budget historical action flick that unfortunately falls flat. Flame and Citron looks promising; it's blessed with a reported big budget of 45 million krones (over nine million ...