They were prepared for just such an eventuality. The end result is also one Hell of an intense story which I’m glad I witnessed. The shopkeeper had died six months earlier, and the man who had taken over his business was – unusually for a Norwegian – a Nazi sympathiser. And people assume horror lovers are the messed up ones. Join our mailing list to receive the latest horror reviews and news (1-2 mails per month! For The 12th Man, the lead role as Jan Baalsrud is portrayed by Thomas Gullestad, who lost 33 pounds for this role. Writer: Petter Skavlan (as Alex Boe) Numerous battles and other capital events took place on Norwegian soil but none is more harrowing than the Arctic escape of sergeant Jan Baalsrud in 1943. However, I do have relatives that lived during this time. The 12th Man book. Oh yeah, and I absolutely HATE when animals are harmed in movies, so I will immediately think less of any movie, where animals are harmed for entertainment (even if the animals are just really good actors). ), Latest posts by Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard. They didn’t stand a chance. Unlike the book it is based on, The 12th Man emphasizes the efforts of those who helped Baalsrud escape, which is in line with Baalsrud's own statements about the local population's courage. Jan Baalsrud's story was also told in We Die Alone by David Howarth. In 1943, he was 25 years old, a cartography instrument maker from Oslo. There was a young girl who washed and bandaged Baalsrud’s frostbitten feet. The 12th Man is one of those real-life stories that seemed destined to become a movie.

The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. And yes, it does happen that I find myself screaming, when watching a good horror movie. Two die from torture while being interrogated, the other captive fighters are executed on Tromsøya, after the German officers interrogate and torture them about their mission. What he goes through is the most surreal nightmare. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. Also, we get to see those that don’t. So began Baalsrud’s two month long escape into neutral Sweden. I had a hard time watching this movie.

I love psychological horror, survival horror and kick-ass women. But he did not die. The 12th Man is one of those real-life stories that seemed destined to become a movie.

They took him back to their home, where their mother gave him dry clothes and a new pair of boots. Jan Baalsrud still remains a hero as you see the battle he fought to reach the neutral country Sweden and that in harsh winter conditions. While climbing the 3,000-foot mountain, Jaeggevarre, Baalsrud got caught in a blizzard. Eleven of the fighters are rounded up by the Germans on the beach. After regaining the ability to walk, he himself went back into Norway as an undercover agent, and remained there until the end of the war. Their only option was to detonate the explosives stored in the ship’s hold, and destroy all evidence of their mission. While he’s sick with fever from gangrene, he has the most insane nightmares which we get to experience very elegantly. It belonged to the sister of Marius Gronvoll, an active member of the resistance. It could have been any war, where a country is occupied and people try to fight back. The resistance fighters ignite the TNT and jump into the water near the fjord. He spent seven months in a Swedish hospital there before being flown back to Scotland to help train other Norwegian patriots, who were going back to Norway to continue the fight against the Germans.

Marius recruited three others to help carry him on a stretcher past the Germans and row him across the fjord, on a pretend fishing trip.

His choice of house was incredibly lucky. When it landed on the tiny island of Rebbenesøya, about 30 miles north of the strategic port city of Tromsø, it might have been any other local vessel making an unexpected stop for engine repairs.

Cast: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen, Vegar Hoel, Håkon T. Nielsen. Death was close: from the Nazi occupiers who had already tortured and killed the rest of mission, from the gangrene moving up towards from his legs, from starvation and hypothermia and exhaustion. But really, the story in The 12th Man is about two men; The hunter and the hunted. They were carrying eight tons of explosives, intended to destroy German assets. Posted by Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard | May 7, 2018 | Read Time 4 min. He had been there for nine days. In April 1940, the German army invaded Denmark and Norway simultaneously. Jan Baalsrud fled the Nazis in the most unforgiving conditions imaginable. According to German documents, the Nazis believed that the resistance group had perished in a blast. Norway, 1943: after a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself on the run from the Gestapo through the snowbound Arctic reaches of Scandinavia. This is more of a survival thriller, but the horror of it all is very real. Something that gets lost in a Dunkirk scaled story. Baalsrud lost a shoe in his hurry. He fell 300 feet down into the valley, destroying his skis and losing his poles and satchel.

The boulder was about 15 feet high and 18 feet wide, with a gap on one side just large enough to cover a man. He hid behind a rock as the rest were rounded up; when German soldiers approached him, he shot two, then ran up the snowy hillside, still with only one shoe. The 12th resistance fighter, Jan Baalsrud, manages to escape by hiding and swimming across the fjord, in sub-zero temperatures, to the nearest shore. Read 14 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The 12th Man tells the dramatic story of Jan Baalsrud's escape from the Nazis during the Second World War. [3] Producer Veslemoey Ruud Zwart secured the film rights for this book in 2004.

[7], Thomas Gullestad went on a diet to play the lead role. The men of Operation Martin knew they were in trouble. [14], "Incredibly, the jaw-dropping scenes in this vivid WWII survivalist film are true", "Magert helvete for Thomas "Finger'n" Gullestad under innspilling av "Den 12. mann, "Filmanmeldelse "Den 12. mann": Kald krig", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_12th_Man_(film)&oldid=979996144, CS1 Norwegian Nynorsk-language sources (nn), Articles containing Norwegian-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Torgny Gerhard Aanderaa as Sverre Odd Kverhellen, Ole Victor Corral as Magnus Johan Kvalvik, Axel Barø Aasen as Frithjof Meyer Haugland, Sigurd Kornelius Lakseide as Ingvald Pedersen, This page was last edited on 24 September 2020, at 00:35. Go figure! For the hope you will feel from beginning till the end. He woke up still snow-blind and spent three days wandering through the valley, hallucinating, as he later recalled, the voices of the men from Operation Martin he had left behind. The 12th Man will be released on Friday, May 4 in New York and Los Angeles, as well as on Digital and On Demand platforms, with a national theatrical rollout to follow.

One was shot on site; 10 were captured, interrogated and tortured, and executed days later in Tromsø. In that sense, it really does feel strangely close. At a time when looking out for one another is needed more than ever, it provides a valuable example.

It is a true story about a Norwegian saboteur pursued buy Nazis in WWII. One is shot on the spot and 10 are captured. The boulder was about 15 feet high and 18 feet wide, with a gap on one side just large enough to cover a man.

Then came an avalanche. That’s why you should watch this movie as well. Both literally and figuratively. The shed in which Baalsrud lay alone was about six feet, by nine. Finally, a group of Sami, Norway’s indigenous people, attached the sled to a team of reindeer. [8], On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86%, based on 21 reviews with an average rating of 6.52/10. A stunning story of heroism and survival during World War II. When you watch a movie like The 12th Man, you already know how the story will end before it begins.

After they left, he made a phone call to his friend, a local Nazi official. On March 23, 1943, a fishing boat carrying eight crew members and four passengers left the Shetland Isles and headed for the fjords of northern Sweden. One does not necessarily expect Harald Zwart to direct a near-epic World War II drama based on the heroic exploits of a real-life Norwegian who, deployed from Scotland to his own country on an abortive mission, finds himself struggling against the harshest elements as he tries to escape encroaching Nazis. The real-life horror of stories from World War 2 have been told ever since the war ended. Thomas Gullestad stars as the protagonist Jan Baalsrud, who escapes from Germans in Rebbenesøya, via Lyngen Fjord and Manndalen, to neutral Sweden in the spring of 1943.

The ones that want to be on the side of those in power – even if it means going against your own friends and family. I may not be old enough (far from it, thank you very much) to remember anything from World War 2. As a Dane, I relate easily to this part. He died in 1988, aged 71, and his ashes are buried in Manndalen, in a grave shared with Aslak Aslaksen Fossvoll, one of the local men who helped him escape to Sweden.

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