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(L-R): Actors Jesper Christensen and Jesper Lohmann appear in ShockYa’s exclusive clip from co-writer-director Anders Refn’s Danish war drama, ‘Into the Darkness.’
The disintegration of a family amidst political turmoil and unrest is just as relatable now as it was during World War II. The new war drama, ‘Into the Darkness,’ depicts a family falling apart amid Denmark’s slow slide into fascism under the shadow of the Third Reich.
Samuel Goldwyn Films is set to release the movie today in U.S. theatrical and VOD platforms. In honor of the drama’s distribution, ShockYa is premiering an exclusive clip from the feature.
INTO THE DARKNESS MOVIE REVIEW
By
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Director: Anders Refn
Cast: Jesper Christensen, Bodil Jørgensen, Mads Reuther, Gustav Dyhekjær Giese
Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/21/21
Opens: May 21, 2021
Hitler considered the Danes übermenschen just like the Germans, so when Germany conquered Denmark in April 1940 he was taken back by the resistance. That’s why, when you see Anders Refn’s “Into the Darkness” which points out that many Danes welcomed the Germans, some going so far as to don Nazi uniforms and joining them at the Russian Front, you realize that not all people were aghast at the occupation. Then again, you rarely if ever find that “all people” approve this or disapprove that, as we learn in our own politics here in the United States. Suffice it to say that some were pro-Nazi, welcomed by the Reich because Germany by itself could never have rolled over so many countries without help by the conquered, and others risked their lives hid