Max Manus: Man of War DVD
Hitler’s regime is one of the most poignant and unforgettable era’s of world history. Max Manus – Man of War follows the story of a man who dared to fight back to free his country and consequently establish himself as a living legend.
Contrary to war films of old, Max Manus will present Germans as adversaries, not evil caricatures and shed light on why so many German followers sacrificed their personal values and adopted the Nazi indoctrination.
Max Manus’ main opponent was the local head of Gestapo, Sigfried Fehmer, an educated, good looking and charming police officer from Munich who loved Norway and the Norwegians and who constantly expressed his inability to understand why the locals fought against the Nazi’s who he believed only wanted the best for them.
The film focuses on the battle between these two strong and colourful personalities and follows a number of spectacular sabotage actions in the Norwegian capital, which has been recreated to look exactly as it did during the war years 1940-45. It also provides a unique insight into the German’s methodical work to tear up the resistance network.
Max Manus is the true story of the resistance fighter of the same name, who in spite of being one of the most wanted men by the Gestapo in Norway, participated in some of the most daring sabotage attacks during the Second World War.
After having fought as a volunteer in the Finnish-Russian Winter War, Max Manus returns home to a Norway occupied by the Germans, in the spring of 1940. Before long, he and his buddies Gregers Gram and Gunnar Sonsteby start making trouble for the Germans.
They build up a resistance network, collect weapons and explosives, and undergo training in England. >From their safe apartment in Oslo, they carry out sabotage attacks against important Nazi targets, and they become increasingly more scheming. But the Gestapo investigator Siegfried Fehmer works determinedly and patiently to stop Max, and soon he starts to unravel the network around him.
Among other activities, they carry out spectacular raids against German ships in the Oslo harbour and the film includes one of the most well-known attack was the sinking of the “slave ship” Donau.
Max Manus - Man of War is released on DVD 15th June