World War II: Focus on the Scandinavian view
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- DirectorÅke LindmanStarsTobias ZilliacusIlkka HeiskanenChristoffer WeissA story of the infantry regiment 61 that fought from Syväri to the Karelian Ishtmus.Finland
- DirectorPekka ParikkaStarsTaneli MäkeläVesa VierikkoTimo TorikkaIn 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.Finland
- DirectorOlli SaarelaStarsPeter FranzénIrina BjörklundKari HeiskanenSet during the World War 2. In the summer of 1941 the Finnish army crosses the border of Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola goes through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for Russian defensive positions. The platoon kills some Russian civilians and rests in a newly conquered village. There Lt. Perkola meets his fiancée Kaarina, who is serving in the Women's Auxilary Corps (Lotta). Then the platoon continues with the mission, but a message about Kaarina's possible death reaches Lt. Perkola. The message causes Perkola to become distracted during the mission.Finland
- DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsEspen SkjønbergLars Andreas LarssenGard B. EidsvoldA retired ship captain reports for service again during the German invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940, and beats the defeatism by organizing into guerrilla methods. Inspired by Thor Olaf Hannevig and his improvised resistance in Telemark.Norway
- DirectorJoachim RønningEspen SandbergStarsAksel HennieAgnes KittelsenNicolai Cleve BrochThe true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.Norway
- DirectorJan TroellStarsMax von SydowGhita NørbyAnette HoffNorwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's controversial support for the Nazi regime during World War II and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war.Norway
- DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsThure LindhardtMads MikkelsenStine StengadeA drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.Denmark
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsJohan WiderbergMarika LagercrantzTomas von BrömssenStig, a 15-year-old student, is attracted to the beauty of Viola, his 37-year-old teacher, and she, drawn to his youth and innocence, feels that he is a God-sent relief for her drunken and miserable husband.Sweden
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsAnni-Kristiina JuusoVille HaapasaloViktor BychkovIn World War II, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial, is almost blown up by Russian planes. A Lapp woman gives shelter to both of them at her farm.Finland
- DirectorRichard HolmStarsAndré SjöbergMartin WallströmAntti ReiniDecember 1942. Two young soldiers leave their post at check-point 83 in Northern Värmland, Sweden, and make their way through the ice cold night toward the border of German-occupied Norway. Sweden stands on the brink of invasion and the soldiers want to see the enemy everybody's talking about, but the adventure ends in disaster and the following day Lieutenant Aron Stenström finds out that his brother Sven is one of the missing soldiers. With the odds against him, he is forced to go on a secret rescue mission behind enemy lines. Deep in the Norwegian forest Aron realizes that a completely different kind of line must be crossed if they're to come out alive.Sweden
- DirectorUrs EggerMark RosmanStarsTobias MorettiVeronica FerresMaximilian SchellStefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, the less he is sure to have known the man he feels so much indebted to...Sweden
- DirectorRoni EzraStarsPilou AsbækLars MikkelsenSimon SearsOn April 9, 1940 Germany invaded Denmark. Based on real events - in Southern Jutland a military unit on bicycles was sent south to help hold back the Germans until reinforcement.Denmark
- DirectorAntti J. JokinenStarsKrista KosonenLauri TilkanenPirkka-Pekka PeteliusA Finnish midwife falls in love with a German-Finnish SS-officer during the Lapland War, in the middle of WWII.Finland
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsRoland MøllerLouis HofmannJoel BasmanIn post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.Denmark
- DirectorErik PoppeStarsJesper ChristensenAnders BaasmoKarl MarkovicsApril 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the king.Norway
- DirectorGeorg MaasJudith KaufmannStarsJuliane KöhlerLiv UllmannSven NordinAs the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow "war children."Norway
- DirectorJens JonssonStarsIngrid Bolsø BerdalRolf LassgårdAlexander ScheerSonja Wigert is a diva and star in Stockholm when World War II breaks out, rapidly getting attention from German officer Josef Terboven. She's then recruited by Swedish intelligence as a spy, but Terboven makes her spy on the Swedes.
- DirectorOle BornedalStarsBertram Bisgaard EnevoldsenEster BirchElla Josephine Lund NilssonThe fates of several Copenhagen residents collide when a WWII bombing mission accidentally targets a school full of children.
- DirectorGöran CarmbackStarsHelene EgelundHelena BergströmPer MorbergWorld War II through the eyes of a Stockholm waitress.
- DirectorJalmari HelanderStarsJorma TommilaAksel HennieJack DoolanWhen an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
- DirectorHarald ZwartStarsThomas GullestadJonathan Rhys MeyersMarie BlokhusThey were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one that got away.
- DirectorAdrian VitoriaStarsSean BeanDanny DyerAksel HennieThe true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.
- DirectorErik SkjoldbjærgStarsKristine HartgenCarl Martin EggesbøChristoph Gelfert MathiesenApril 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machinery. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, Hitler is dealt his first defeat.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsEero AhoJohannes HolopainenJussi VatanenA film adaptation of Väinö Linna's best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel's unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.
- StarsAku HirviniemiAndrei AlénJussi VatanenThe story of a Finnish Army machine gun company operating in the Karelian front during the Continuation War from mobilization in 1941 to the Moscow Armistice in 1944.