Flammen & Citronen (Flame and Citron)

Here is another very well-told story of the Dutch resistance during WWII. We yanks know so little of what went on during this conflict outside of our own national history, so it's good for us to see that the struggle was going on long before we got involved and that we were just a part of it. There is a reason it was called a world war.

Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen play the title roles as partners of very opposite personalities who took a small controversial part in the Holger Danske during the 1940s. Mikkelsen may be recognizable to fans of recent Bond films. Lindhardt was most recently on US screens in Angels & Demons. Both give very soulful performances here and I hope we see more of both again soon.

A very lovely Stine Stengade plays a crafty, seductive double agent. We don't learn her true identity until the end of course, and yet we cannot be surprised. Christian Berkel has been in many recent WWII films from Valkyrie to Ingourious Basterds, both of which were filmed after this Dutch movie. Here he plays the head of Gestapo in Denmark.

Watching this gripping drama with someone who will help you figure out who the real "bad guys" were.