Plot
English and German pilots shoot each other down, and later find themselves at the same cabin. In order to survive the tough winter in the Norwegian wilderness they have to stand together. It's the start of a long and unlikely friendship.
Release Year: 2012
Rating: 7.0/10 (5,191 voted)
Director:Petter Næss
Storyline
In World War II, the German pilots Lieutenant Horst Schopis, Josef Schwartz and Wolfgang Strunk crash their airplane in the wilderness of Norway after shooting down a British airplane. They walk through a snow storm until they reach shelter in an abandoned hunter cabin. Soon the British pilot Captain Charles P. Davenport and the gunner Robert Smith arrive in the cabin and they become prisoners of the German pilots. However, after the initial friction between the enemies, they realize that they should team-up to survive in the wilderness in the beginning of an improbable friendship.
Filming Locations: Djupvatnet, Stranda, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
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Did You Know?
Trivia:
Based on true events. The names of the German airmen were not changed for this film, but the names of the British airmen were changed. The real names of the British airmen were captain R. T. Partridge (Davenport) and R.S. Bostok (Smith). See more »
Goofs:
Davenport mentions that according to the Geneva Convention that as prisoners of war, they were allowed certain amenities. The 4th Geneva Convention was proclaimed in 1949, well after the end of the War, and no state formally ratified their acceptance of any of the first four GCs before this year. See more »
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User Review
war enemies becomes friends
Rating: 9/10
I just saw the movie. I give it a 9, it would have been a 10 if they
had a scene of the planes fighting in the sky before the start. Sort of
was missing that war scene so we could more get into the situation of
hate of another.
But the actors does a great job, everyone is great. The beautiful and
harsh landscape of the Norwegian mountains and wilderness is really
beautiful and spectacular, and shows what sort of situation they are
in. You get involved as an audience, you feel their emotions and feel
their pain, and feels sorry for even the Germans. It is a story of
enemies that hate each other, and end up as friends. A story based on
true happenings and that is just what is so wonderful about it, seeing
that even if they are true enemies, working together to stay alive is a
much stronger force than hate and war.
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