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2.9/10   29 votes
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Haakon Gundersen (writer)
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Release Date:
9 October 2009 (Norway) more
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Tor Lindblom makes a fortune supplying the Nazis with everything from liquor and cigarettes to cement and steel... more | add synopsis
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Authentic... but did anyone get the point? more (1 total)

Cast

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Carl Bernhard Beck ... Hans (as Carl Beck)

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal ... Kristin
Bert Böhlitz ... Lieutenant Reinhard

Kåre Conradi ... Svein Nordanger
Jan Grønli ... Lawyer Svendsen
Jørgen Langhelle ... Moland
Peter Linka ... Colonel Clark

Ivar Lykke ... Bjerknes
George Mendel ... Businessman
Lene Nystrøm ... Eva Karlsen
Ben O'Brien ... Moorgate

Götz Otto ... Major Krüger

Hary Prinz ... Captain Francke
Fridtjov Såheim ... Tor Lindblom
Julia Schacht ... Lise
Jockel Tschiersch ... Dr.Walter
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Also Known As:
Betrayal (International: English title)
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Norway:103 min
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2 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
Authentic... but did anyone get the point?, 9 November 2009
3/10
Author: OJT from Norway

Svik could have been an important movie about Nazi-collaborators in Norway during the first world war, and the film wants to focus on some important matters regarding Norways biggest industrial company during the war, making aluminum at Herøya factories during the war.

But the film manages to make this a complete mess. The script could easily have told what is going on, but it takes more than an hour to understand what the point of the story is. And even then you might lose the point.

The actors do a OK job, but also here's trouble. It seems like the seriousness of the story goes to their head and into their acting. We tend to find the characters interesting, until we really don't care what will happen. None of them is lovable, which is a problem in a film with a question of taking sides and understand the actions.

The film is beautifully shot, and the historical backgrounds are flawless, except a strange opening scene over a London war time sky. In Oslo and Herøya, as well as at the Swedish border everything functions.

It's such a pity they couldn't throw away the script, making it clearer and better. Even Lene Nystrøm (of Aqua) would have come out better that way. She does fair, especially when on stage singing out German "lieder".

There was great expectation to this, after the great film of "Max Manus", but I'm sorry to say this is a long step back from that war time story. With a better script this could have been a 7 out of 10. The 3 out of 10 is for good intentions, and great wartime coloring, as well as the cast trying to make us interested, as well as the importance of this story - if only someone had told it understandable.

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