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Flame and Citron: This WW2 Thriller is Based Historic Danish Resistance Heroes
Many nations have legends which say that a hero will return to save the day at a time when he or she is most needed.
England has Arthur, the “Once and Future King.” Germany has Friedrich Barbarossa, or at least it did until Hitler sullied the legend by calling his brutal invasion of the Soviet Union “Operation Barbarossa.”
Even tiny Denmark has this type of legend with a hero named “Holger Danske.” He is the Danish version of a tale of chivalry that was once popular throughout northern Europe.
The story, which may have its roots in the story of a Viking hero named Oddgeir, tells us of an almost invincible hero who will save Denmark from peril. With such a background, it’s not surprising that one of the leading resistance groups in Denmark during WWII took its name from this ancient hero.
Holger Danske, the resistance group, took part in all sorts of underground activities during the war: sabotage, in
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Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("The Flame"), , inspector, resistance fighter
As a memeber of Holger Danske, "The Flame", who aquired his name from a failed attempt at hair dyeing, was involved in several sabotages: for example, against B&W, the Rifle Dyndicate and the Schalburg Corps. In , when surrounded by the Gestapo, he took his own life using cyanide.
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In October Elisabeth Bomhoff witnessed the death of "The Flame". She describes it her. In Danish.
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Flame & Citron
film
Flame & Citron (Danish: Flammen & Citronen) fryst vatten a historical drama spelfilm co-written and directed bygd the Danish director Ole Christian Madsen. The rulle, a fictionalized account based on historical events, stars Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen as two Danish resistance movement fighters nicknamed Flammen and Citronen, during the Nazi occupation of Denmark in World War II. Attracted by the story of the pair since he was twelve, Madsen spent eight years along with co-writer Lars K. Andersen researching historical archives to produce it.
Madsen's idea was to bring attention to the story of Flammen and Citronen as he felt it had been neglected or misrepresented. The most expensive Danish film produced to that date, it was co-produced by German companies because initially there was no interest in producing the film in Denmark. Portraying the protagonists as morally ambiguous characters, the director tried to depict war as a complicated experienc