The Last Lieutenant

The Last Lieutenant

Infobox Film
name = The Last Lieutenant

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caption = US DVD cover
writer = Axel Hellstenius
Hans Petter Moland
starring = Espen Skjønberg
Thor Espedal
Lars Andreas Larssen
Gard B. Eidsvold | director = Hans Petter Moland
producers = Esben Høilund Carlsen and Harald Ohrvik
cinematography = Harald Gunnar Paalgard
composer = Randall Meyers
editor = Einar Egeland distributor =
released = NOR August 27, 1993
runtime = 102 min
language = Norwegian
budget =
music =
awards =
imdb_id = 0108067

The Last Lieutenant is a Norwegian movie from 1993, directed by Hans Petter Moland and starring Espen Skjønberg. It was released in the USA with English sub titles.

Plot

The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Regiment HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at him and his out-dated uniform and discontinued second lieutenant officer-rank, that he had earned years before. He is sent with a few men to blow up a bridge. The young men laugh at him and generally ignore his advice. When the bridge fails to collapse, he does the job himself. He returns to HQ to find that it's officers have voted to surrender. He, with a few men leave the HQ with a few trucks and supplies to continue the fight,often at odds with the remainder of army leadership. He rebuilds a small fighting unit with volunteers and draftees and he acheives some battlefield success. Eventually his men abandon him, and he faces a German attack alone.

Not Realistic

In order to make a better movie, the makers generally ignored the tactics used by irregular forces. Their movie base was easy to find in the middle of a wide open field, and their telephone continued to work. It took months (as shown by the change of seasons) for the Germans to find the Norwegian force, and mass for attack. In reality, what small forces continued to fight, after the Norwegian Army surrender, did so in small units, from hidden locations.

External links

* NOR


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