Thomas Gullestad
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The 12th Man ( Norwegian: Den 12. mann) is a 2017 Norwegian historical drama film directed by Harald Zwart, starring Thomas Gullestad as Jan Baalsrud, who escapes from occupying Nazi Germans on the island of Rebbenesøya, via the Lyngen Fjord and Manndalen, to neutral Sweden in the spring of 1943. The film, based on historical events, was ...
Mar 30, 2020 · A story of kindness and neighbourly spirit: The 12th Man. The shed in which Baalsrud lay alone was about six feet, by nine. He jokingly named it the Savoy Hotel. During that time, he took Marius ...
Awards. Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) St Olav's Medal with Oak Branch. Other work. Chairman of the Norwegian Disabled Veterans Union (1957 — 1964) Jan Sigurd Baalsrud, MBE (13 December 1917 – 30 December 1988) was a commando in the Norwegian resistance trained by the British during World War II .
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Oct 8, 2018 · Based on a true story, the film tells the story of twelve resistance fighters who were dropped into the country's arctic territory. Eleven are captured or killed almost immediately, but Jan ...
May 4, 2018 · The 12th Man: Directed by Harald Zwart. With Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen. They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them.
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- Drama, History, Thriller
- Harald Zwart
- 2018-05-04
The story of Jan Baalsrud’s escape through occupied Northern Norway in the spring of 1943 has something of the improbable about it. The new film about the drama, The 12th Man, is generating considerable interest in the story, so we sought out the locations where it all happened. At the end of March 1943, Jan Baalsrud and 11 other intelligence ...
The nightmare sequences, in which Baalsrud dreams of capture and more, do not help much. And the movie is one-dimensional in its portrayal of the Nazis intent on capturing their “12th man” (one of the most dogged of whom is played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers). This seems an odd complaint but when you’ve hired human actors to do nothing but ...
