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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.
Jan Baalsrud: Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... Kurt Stage: Marie Blokhus ... Gudrun Grønvoll: Mads Sjøgård Pettersen ... Marius Grønvoll: Geir Vegar Hoel ... Sigurd Eskeland (as Vegar Hoel) Håkon T. Nielsen ... Erik Reichelt: Eirik Risholm Velle ... Per Blindheim
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 ...
May 21, 2024 · Washington, D.C. The 12th Man is the story of Jan Baalsrud, a World War II hero who risked his life to serve his country—and survived against all odds. The story of Norwegian Jan Baalsrud reads like a thrilling work of fiction. It is hard to believe that it is actually the true account of a remarkable man who managed to escape his German ...
Mar 30, 2020 · The man’s name was Jan Baalsrud and his story is told in The 12th Man, a 2017 film just released on Netflix. In 1943, he was 25 years old, a cartography instrument maker from Oslo.
But Harald Zwart, Hollywood CV notwithstanding, is a child of the Netherlands, and has long cherished a desire to tell the story of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian resistance soldier. Trained in the U.K., Baalsrud was part of a dozen fighters sent to Norway on a mission to wreck a German airbase there.
