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
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The second instalment of the WW2 saga, penned by Refn himself and his regular collaborator
Flemming Quist Møller, is set between 1943 and 1945 and will centre on Aksel Skov (
Mads Reuther), who has become a hard-boiled partisan and left his family. As the Danish coalition government collapses, the patriarch Karl (Jesper Christensen) suddenly lacks political support and is forced to take drastic decisions to protect his family assets, which puts the relationship with his wife Eva (Bodil Jørgensen) under harsher pressure as she has always struggled with Karl’s collaboration with the Germans. The growing opposition to the occupying forces and increased brutality of the Germans have fatal consequences for the family.
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The second instalment of the WW2 saga, penned by Refn himself and his regular collaborator
Flemming Quist Møller, is set between 1943 and 1945 and will centre on Aksel Skov (
Mads Reuther), who has become a hard-boiled partisan and left his family. As the Danish coalition government collapses, the patriarch Karl (Jesper Christensen) suddenly lacks political support and is forced to take drastic decisions to protect his family assets, which puts the relationship with his wife Eva (Bodil Jørgensen) under harsher pressure as she has always struggled with Karl’s collaboration with the Germans. The growing opposition to the occupying forces and increased brutality of the Germans have fatal consequences for the family.
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