Film Festival 09 - Flame and Citron
Flame & Citron
Flammen & citronen, Denmark/Germany 2008, 130m
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Festivals: Toronto, Vancouver, London 2008
The myths surrounding the Danish Resistance during World War II are
scathingly reassessed through the eyes of two of its legendary
heroes in this action-packed thriller. The most expensive film ever
made in Denmark it was also a massive homeland hit. Mads Mikkelsen
is Citron, a family man who's initially sickened by the idea of
murder but who grows into a vicious killer. Thure Lindhardt is
Flame, a dapper red-headed assassin who becomes racked by
uncertainty. Smuggling British pilots by night and assassinating
Nazis by day, they are heroes. But as the war grinds on, the
contradictory orders of their British and government-in-exile
commanders and their inability to discern friend from foe among
colleagues and superiors leave the pair increasingly isolated, a
danger to their comrades and themselves. "It's a taut, complex
thriller, but beware: in Flame & Citron, truth is far bleaker
than fiction." - Nicholas Barber, The Independent
In Danish and German, with English subtitles
www.flameandcitron.com
