Into the White
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| Directed by | Petter Næss |
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Peter Aalbæk Jensen Valerie Edwina Saunders |
| Written by | Ole Meldgaard Dave Mango Petter Næss |
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Stig Henrik Hoff David Kross Florian Lukas Lachlan Nieboer Rupert Grint |
| Music by | Nils Petter Molvaer |
| Cinematography | Daniel Voldheim |
| Edited by | Frida Eggum Michaelsen |
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| Distributed by | Scanbox Entertainment |
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104 minutes |
| Country | Norway Sweden |
| Language | English Norwegian German |
| Box office | $712,216 (worldwide) |
Into the White (also known as Comrade, Lost in the Snow and Cross of Honour in the United Kingdom) is a film set during the Second World War and directed by Petter Næss. It is inspired by and loosely based on real-life events that occurred in Norway during the war.
Into the White was written by Ole Meldgaard, Dave Mango and Petter Næss and directed by Næss. The film stars David Kross, Stig Henrik Hoff, Florian Lukas, Rupert Grint and Lachlan Nieboer.
On 27 April 1940, a Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 bomber (1H+CT) is shot down near Grotli by a Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Skua (L2940) fighter. Three of the German crew are survivors: pilot Leutnant Horst Schopis (Florian Lukas), Unteroffizier Josef Schwartz (David Kross) and Feldwebel Wolfgang Strunk (Stig Henrik Hoff), who set off looking for shelter. Two British survivors from the aircraft that shot them down have also crash-landed near the same location.
When Capt. Charles P. Davenport (Lachlan Nieboer) and his air gunner Robert Smith (Rupert Grint) meet up with the German crew, they find out that they can all share the same abandoned Norwegian cabin, despite an uneasy armed standoff. In order to survive the harsh Norwegian winter, the German and British crew members have to learn to cooperate and an unlikely friendship blossoms between the survivors.
The main cast for the film includes:
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 bear 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.
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