Flame & Citron

Infobox Film
name = Flame & Citron


caption =
director = Ole Christian Madsen
producer = Lars Bredo Rahbek
writer = Ole Christian Madsen
Lars K. Andersen
starring = Thure Lindhardt
Mads Mikkelsen
Jesper Christensen
Peter Mygind
Stine Stengade
country=Denmark
language = Danish
imdb_id = 0920458|

"Flame & Citron" ( _da. Flammen & Citronen) is a Danish Drama/Action movie from 2008. The director and co-writer of the movie is Ole Christian Madsen. The movie is based on actual events and eye-witness accounts of two of the most active resistance fighters in the Holger Danske resistance group) during World War II, Bent Faurschou-Hviid (known as "Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (known as "Citron"), who both died during the war.

The two resistance fighters are portrayed by Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen, and among the film's supporting actors and actresses are Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind, Mille Lehfeldt, Flemming Enevold, Jesper Christensen, Malene Schwartz, Lars Mikkelsen, Christian Berkel, and Hanns Zischler.

Plot

Cast

*Mads Mikkelsen ... Citronen
*Finn Bergh
*Christian Berkel... Hoffmann - Gestapo leader
*Rasmus Bjerg
*David Bjergsø ... Schalburg Soldier
*Rasmus Botoft ... Liquorstore clerk
*Jesper Christensen ... Flammen's Father
*Flemming Enevold ... Spex
*Martin Greis
*Martin Hall ... Østergaard Petersen
*René Hansen (as Rene' Benjamin Hansen)
*Martin Hestbæk
*Henrik Jørgensen ... Civil Danish Policeman
*Danny Kirkeby ... Schalburg Sergeant
*Mille Lehfeldt ... Bodil (as Mille Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt)
*Thure Lindhardt ... Flammen
*Mads Lodberg ... Bodyguard
*Lars Mikkelsen ... Frode Jacobsen
*Peter Mygind... Aksel Winther
*Caspar Phillipson ... Christian Frederik von Schalburg
*Malene Schwartz ... Gilberts wife
*Stine Stengade ... Ketty
*Klaus Tange ... Schalburg - Sergent
*Thomas Voss
*Hanns Zischler ... Gilbert - German colonel

Production

The film was shot at Babelsberg Studios in Germany, as well as on location in Copenhagen and Prague. With a budget of more than 46 million Danish kroner, the movie is one of the most expensive Danish language movies ever. [ [http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0920458/trivia Imdb-trivia] ]

The film's name

The movie is named from the nicknames of the two main characters. "Flame" refers to the colour of Bent Faurschou-Hviid's red hair, after an atempt to dye it blond. [cite web|language=Danish|accessdate=2008-08-16|url=http://www.natmus.dk/sw54420.asp|title=Flammen - stikkernes værste fjende] "Citron" (Danish for "lemon") got the name because, while working at the Citroën-factories in Copenhagen, he sabotaged German cars and trucks. [cite web|language=Danish|accessdate=2008-08-16|url=http://www.natmus.dk/sw54418.asp|title=Citronen - modstandskampens altmuligmand]

Notes

External links

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* [http://www.flammenogcitronen.dk/ Official movie website da]