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Into the White
Into the White (also known as Comrade, Lost in the Snow and Cross of Honour in the United Kingdom) is a 2012 wartime survival film directed by Petter Næss, written by Ole Meldgaard, Dave Mango and Petter Næss, and starring David Kross, Stig Henrik Hoff, Florian Lukas, Rupert Grint and Lachlan Nieboer. Loosely based on a real incident that occurred in Norway during the Norwegian campaign of World War II, the film follows a group of Royal Navy and Luftwaffe aviators who must cooperate to survive after crash-landing in remote Norway.
On 27 April 1940, a Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 and a Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Skua engage each other but crash near Grotli, Norway. Pilot Leutnant Horst Schopis (Florian Lukas), Feldwebel Wolfgang Strunk (Stig Henrik Hoff), and Obergefreiter Josef Schwartz (David Kross) survive the He 111's crash-landing and attempt to reach German lines, but lose their supplies and are stranded in a hunter's cabin during a snowstorm. While there, they hear Captain Charles P. Davenport (Lachlan Nieboer) and his air gunner Robert Smith (Rupert Grint), the British aviators aboard the Skua, approaching the cabin. Horst allows them into the cabin as prisoners of war, divides the room roughly in half between them, and shares their only food, a morsel of oatmeal, with the British. They use wooden furniture in the cabin as firewood, and Horst takes Davenport's lighter, a gift from his father, to light it, promising to return it afterward.
After an attempt to find help the next day, Smith steals Josef's gun and orders Horst and Strunk to disarm themselves. While Smith and Strunk attempt to hunt for food, Davenport orders Horst to chop down what turns out to be the main support beam in the middle of the cabin, causing the roof to cave in before Horst and Davenport hold up the roof atop tables. When Smith and Strunk return with just a rabbit, Horst takes Davenport's gun and a standoff occurs before the Germans and British decide they must work together to survive and put their weapons in a box. After agreeing to cooperate, the Germans and British gradually befriend each other, improved when Strunk uncovers a stash of dried meat and alcohol under a floorboard, which they share. Josef's arm, which was injured in the crash, becomes infected with gangrene, and the men give him alcohol before amputating his arm with an axe.
The next day, Smith and Strunk set out on skis to determine where to travel. Meanwhile, a Norwegian Army scout locates the He 111, and a Norwegian Army unit is dispatched to search the area for the downed aviators. When they spot Smith and Strunk skiing to the cabin, a Norwegian sniper shoots and kills Strunk, while Norwegian soldiers capture Smith, Davenport, Horst, and Josef. At a Norwegian military base, Smith and Davenport are interrogated and accused of being collaborators, worsened when Horst returns Davenport's lighter in front of the Norwegians. When a Norwegian officer threatens to report Smith and Davenport to their superiors, Davenport snaps, insults the officer, and explains they were simply trying to survive. Smith and Davenport are released, while Horst and Josef are taken away in a canoe pending transport to a prisoner-of-war camp, and Davenport and Horst exchange a glance.
Epilogue intertitle state that Horst and Schwartz became prisoners of war in Canada, while Smith and Davenport returned to combat action but were shot down in their very next flight, killing Smith. In 1977, Horst receives a call at his home in Munich from Davenport, who also survived the war and invites him to London.
Although a realistic mock-up of a Heinkel He 111 bomber is used, nearly all of the production is set in a cabin with only occasional exterior scenes, prompting one reviewer to note that the film was more like a play. Filming began 28 March 2011 with three weeks of shooting in Grotli, Norway, near where the actual events occurred, with some scenes being shot in Trollhättan and Brålanda, Sweden. The finished film was released in March 2012.
The film account is loosely based on historical events, although the British characters' names are changed. Captain R.T. Partridge is renamed Charles P. Davenport and Lieutenant R.S. Bostock became Robert Smith. The German characters' names bear more resemblance to the names of their real-life counterparts. Three British Royal Navy Blackburn Skuas operating from HMS Ark Royal attacked the Heinkel He 111 and knocked out the Germans' port engine. The German aircraft crashed 1,000 meters above sea level in a remote mountain area, miles from any major road. The German tail gunner Hans Hauck was dead when the bomber crashed.
Captain R.T. Partridge, squadron leader of the 800 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, experienced a failing engine in his Skua and glided down to land on a frozen lake. He had seen a small hut nearby and he and his radio operator, Lieutenant Bostock, hiked through heavy snow to the deserted reindeer hunters' cabin. A few minutes later, they were alerted by a whistle and saw the three survivors of the German Heinkel armed with pistols and knives. Speaking broken German and English, the British managed to persuade the Germans that they were the crew of a Vickers Wellington bomber, rather than the fighter that had shot them down. The Germans believed that they had been shot down by a Supermarine Spitfire.
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Into the White
Into the White (also known as Comrade, Lost in the Snow and Cross of Honour in the United Kingdom) is a 2012 wartime survival film directed by Petter Næss, written by Ole Meldgaard, Dave Mango and Petter Næss, and starring David Kross, Stig Henrik Hoff, Florian Lukas, Rupert Grint and Lachlan Nieboer. Loosely based on a real incident that occurred in Norway during the Norwegian campaign of World War II, the film follows a group of Royal Navy and Luftwaffe aviators who must cooperate to survive after crash-landing in remote Norway.
On 27 April 1940, a Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 and a Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Skua engage each other but crash near Grotli, Norway. Pilot Leutnant Horst Schopis (Florian Lukas), Feldwebel Wolfgang Strunk (Stig Henrik Hoff), and Obergefreiter Josef Schwartz (David Kross) survive the He 111's crash-landing and attempt to reach German lines, but lose their supplies and are stranded in a hunter's cabin during a snowstorm. While there, they hear Captain Charles P. Davenport (Lachlan Nieboer) and his air gunner Robert Smith (Rupert Grint), the British aviators aboard the Skua, approaching the cabin. Horst allows them into the cabin as prisoners of war, divides the room roughly in half between them, and shares their only food, a morsel of oatmeal, with the British. They use wooden furniture in the cabin as firewood, and Horst takes Davenport's lighter, a gift from his father, to light it, promising to return it afterward.
After an attempt to find help the next day, Smith steals Josef's gun and orders Horst and Strunk to disarm themselves. While Smith and Strunk attempt to hunt for food, Davenport orders Horst to chop down what turns out to be the main support beam in the middle of the cabin, causing the roof to cave in before Horst and Davenport hold up the roof atop tables. When Smith and Strunk return with just a rabbit, Horst takes Davenport's gun and a standoff occurs before the Germans and British decide they must work together to survive and put their weapons in a box. After agreeing to cooperate, the Germans and British gradually befriend each other, improved when Strunk uncovers a stash of dried meat and alcohol under a floorboard, which they share. Josef's arm, which was injured in the crash, becomes infected with gangrene, and the men give him alcohol before amputating his arm with an axe.
The next day, Smith and Strunk set out on skis to determine where to travel. Meanwhile, a Norwegian Army scout locates the He 111, and a Norwegian Army unit is dispatched to search the area for the downed aviators. When they spot Smith and Strunk skiing to the cabin, a Norwegian sniper shoots and kills Strunk, while Norwegian soldiers capture Smith, Davenport, Horst, and Josef. At a Norwegian military base, Smith and Davenport are interrogated and accused of being collaborators, worsened when Horst returns Davenport's lighter in front of the Norwegians. When a Norwegian officer threatens to report Smith and Davenport to their superiors, Davenport snaps, insults the officer, and explains they were simply trying to survive. Smith and Davenport are released, while Horst and Josef are taken away in a canoe pending transport to a prisoner-of-war camp, and Davenport and Horst exchange a glance.
Epilogue intertitle state that Horst and Schwartz became prisoners of war in Canada, while Smith and Davenport returned to combat action but were shot down in their very next flight, killing Smith. In 1977, Horst receives a call at his home in Munich from Davenport, who also survived the war and invites him to London.
Although a realistic mock-up of a Heinkel He 111 bomber is used, nearly all of the production is set in a cabin with only occasional exterior scenes, prompting one reviewer to note that the film was more like a play. Filming began 28 March 2011 with three weeks of shooting in Grotli, Norway, near where the actual events occurred, with some scenes being shot in Trollhättan and Brålanda, Sweden. The finished film was released in March 2012.
The film account is loosely based on historical events, although the British characters' names are changed. Captain R.T. Partridge is renamed Charles P. Davenport and Lieutenant R.S. Bostock became Robert Smith. The German characters' names bear more resemblance to the names of their real-life counterparts. Three British Royal Navy Blackburn Skuas operating from HMS Ark Royal attacked the Heinkel He 111 and knocked out the Germans' port engine. The German aircraft crashed 1,000 meters above sea level in a remote mountain area, miles from any major road. The German tail gunner Hans Hauck was dead when the bomber crashed.
Captain R.T. Partridge, squadron leader of the 800 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, experienced a failing engine in his Skua and glided down to land on a frozen lake. He had seen a small hut nearby and he and his radio operator, Lieutenant Bostock, hiked through heavy snow to the deserted reindeer hunters' cabin. A few minutes later, they were alerted by a whistle and saw the three survivors of the German Heinkel armed with pistols and knives. Speaking broken German and English, the British managed to persuade the Germans that they were the crew of a Vickers Wellington bomber, rather than the fighter that had shot them down. The Germans believed that they had been shot down by a Supermarine Spitfire.