Flammen & Citronen ( Flammen og citronen ) ( Flame and Citron )

Flammen & Citronen (DVD) (*)

$25.99

Original Title: Flammen og citronen
Alternate Title: Flame and Citron
Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Danish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
130 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
Czech Republic ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Ole Christian Madsen

Written By:
Lars Andersen
Ole Christian Madsen

Actors:
Thure Lindhardt ..... Flammen
Mads Mikkelsen ..... Citronen
Stine Stengade ..... Ketty Selmer
Peter Mygind ..... Aksel Winther
Mille Lehfeldt ..... Bodil
Christian Berkel ..... Hoffmann - Gestapo leader
Hanns Zischler ..... Gilbert - German colonel
Claus Riis Østergaard ..... Bananen
Flemming Enevold ..... Spex
Lars Mikkelsen ..... Frode Jacobsen aka Ravnen
Jesper Christensen ..... Flammens Far
Lærke Winther Andersen ..... Cap
Peter Plaugborg ..... Lillebjørn
Martin Hestbæk ..... Storebjørn
Thomas Voss ..... Teddy

Synopsis:

One film that doesn't soften the truth about resistance movements with remorse or false sentiment is Jean-Pierre Melville's "Army of Shadows," a 1969 masterpiece based on his experiences in the French underground. The Danish director Ole Christian Madsen looks to have borrowed some Melvillian stylistic flourishes to make "Flame & Citron," a fictionalized film, based on fact, about two Danish Resistance fighters. You can see the Melville touch in the impenetrable shadows that spill across Mr. Madsen's carefully composed mise-en-scène and in the fedoras and trench coats worn by his two heroes (Thure Lindhardt as Flame, and Mads Mikkelsen as Citron). What it doesn't share, though, is the lack of pity that makes "Army of Shadows" so unbearably sad, its almost repellent hardness of heart. What "Flame & Citron" has instead are decent men taking down Nazis (always a crowd pleaser) and some appealing actors - notably Mr. Lindhardt, Mr. Mikkelsen and Christian Berkel as the head of the Copenhagen Gestapo - ensnared in an increasingly tangled narrative line. Written by Mr. Madsen and Lars K. Andersen, the film tracks Flame and Citron as they do in Nazis and collaborators - for the most part, Flame pulls the trigger, Citron spins the getaway wheel - and their relationships with prickly colleagues and difficult intimates. Citron, his face drenched in sweat, proves an unreliable family man, while the red-haired Flame casts an eye at a femme, Ketty (Stine Stengade), who might be fatale.

While the Danish population hopes for a swift end to the war, freedom fighters Bent Faurschou Hviid (aka: Flame) and Jorgen Haagen Schmith (aka: Citron), secretly put their lives at stake fighting for the Holger Danske resistance group. Based on actual events and eye-witness acounts, Flame And Citron tells the story of their struggle for justice and freedom.

Wartime drama set in Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1944, based on the true story of a legendary duo of resistance fighters known by the codenames Flammen and Citronen.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 07 September, 2009.

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