Max Manus: Man of War

(2008)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 284 votes

Genres: History, War, Action, Crime

Year: 2008

Runtime: 118 мин

Country: Norway, Denmark

Director: Йоахим Реннинг, Эспен Сандберг

Cast: Аксель Хенни, Агнес Киттельсен, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Кристиан Рубек, Julia Bache-Wiig, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Eirik Evjen, Knut Joner, Якоб Офтебро, Пол Сверре Хаген

Plot

Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.

After serving with Norwegian forces in Finland against the Soviets in 1940, Max Manus returns to Norway onto to it invaded and occupied by the Nazis. He organises a resistance movement but this is initially badly done, resulting in him having to flee to Britain. There, with training from the British, free Norwegians are trained and formed into formidable commando units with Max as one of their most capable and successful commanders.