Incredibly well-told true story, packaged in under 2 hours.
Story that kept me intrigued and interested throughout.
Our heroin starts off as a privileged, spoiled, and career-driven climbing Norwegian actress not very much interested in the world at war and her country's oppression under the Nazi yoke.
But when personally affected by a despotic brutality of the Nazi administrators in her Country, she steps up to the plate and consciously puts her future acting career (and life) on the line. The point of whether she puts the interest of her Country before her own acting ambitions, or whether she is simply motivated by her family's predicament with Nazis was to me not completely clear in the film, perhaps it was intentional on the part of the director, perhaps to this day nobody knows what her real motivation was. Perhaps Sonja Wigert herself, before she died wasn't able to define her own motivation, perhaps it was a combination of factors. But when the time came she did the noble thing and put others before her own safety and career.
Fantastic acting from all characters.
Story that kept me intrigued and interested throughout.
Our heroin starts off as a privileged, spoiled, and career-driven climbing Norwegian actress not very much interested in the world at war and her country's oppression under the Nazi yoke.
But when personally affected by a despotic brutality of the Nazi administrators in her Country, she steps up to the plate and consciously puts her future acting career (and life) on the line. The point of whether she puts the interest of her Country before her own acting ambitions, or whether she is simply motivated by her family's predicament with Nazis was to me not completely clear in the film, perhaps it was intentional on the part of the director, perhaps to this day nobody knows what her real motivation was. Perhaps Sonja Wigert herself, before she died wasn't able to define her own motivation, perhaps it was a combination of factors. But when the time came she did the noble thing and put others before her own safety and career.
Fantastic acting from all characters.