SummaryApril 9, 1940: Denmark is invaded by Nazi Germany with demands for immediate and unconditional surrender. The government surrenders after a few hours and begins cooperating with the Nazis. On the other side of the Atlantic is Denmark's ambassador to the United States of America, a daredevil and a man of the world - Henrik Kauffmann, who is willin... Read More
Directed By:Christina Rosendahl
Written By:Kristian Bang Foss, Christina Rosendahl, Dunja Gry Jensen
The Good Traitor
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Mar 23, 2021
75
The Good Traitor is still a solid movie for history buffs and does contain several moments of genuine style, making it well worth the watch.
Mar 25, 2021
70
Rosendahl’s framing complicates any “great man” narrative of the period, and shows how the energies of public and private worlds course back and forth.
Apr 16, 2021
50
No doubt Henrik Kauffmann (Ulrich Thomsen), the Danish ambassador to the United States during Nazi-occupied Denmark, was good. But The Good Traitor, the pseudo-docudrama depicting his life is sadly not.
Mar 11, 2021
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Fascinating backroom politics circa WWII are undermined by banal marital melodrama in Danish director Christina Rosendahl’s The Good Traitor, resulting in a so-so period drama that raises more questions than it answers.
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Production Company:
- Nimbus Film
- Rosendahl Film
- MAAN Rental
- Copenhagen Film Fund
- Det Danske Filminstitut
- Nordisk Film & TV-Fond
- Danmarks Radio (DR)
- TV4
- Hungarian Film Incentive
Release Date:Mar 26, 2021
Duration:1 h 55 m
Awards
Danish Film Awards (Robert)
• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations
Bodil Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
