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The contributions and the sacrifices these men and women made deserve to be better known. Runtime 2 hours 30 minutes.

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Suddenly the sailors are in the front of the war, without any weapons. Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Episode guide. War Sailor Original title: Krigsseileren.

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And I think a movie format would have been better, also. See our picks. Claire Michela Caruana Structured like a sweeping epic, Krigsseileren tells about the efforts of Norwegian commercial sailors in the Atlantic theatre during WWII. A tribute to being "bergensk", the supressed Bergen street dialect that is almost died out, and the under-told story of coastal Norway. War Sailor Original title: Krigsseileren. Braathen Karl Vidar Lende As real a depiction of events which shaped our world as you are likely to see. Episode 1. I feared it would be a Michael Bay-ish, bombastic, humorless action fest. I spoke to a war historian after the screening, who also loved the film, and his biggest complaint was the lack of hair cuts and one piece of clothing in one scene. R-averiss 16 April

Based on the true stories of the 30, Norwegian civilian sailors who participated in the Allied convoys during the Second World War , it follows two best friends from Bergen , one married and the other unmarried, who, in , join the Norwegian merchant marine and are forced to stay at sea for the duration of the war without any ability to communicate with their families in occupied Norway. In the meantime, the married sailor's wife and their three children endure a harsh life in occupied Bergen, which is also bombed by the Allies.

This is a triumph of Norwegian cinema. See all related lists ». A lot of screen time was given to the family's miserable time back home, and I guess it's fair to include that aspect of war too, but it doesn't really help the story - it's too much. Storyline Edit. Create account. Series vistas. Like all truly great cinema, the power here is in what remains unsaid, never have I ever felt so completely destroyed by a single stare. See more gaps Learn more about contributing. Details Edit. I watched all three episodes end on end, and I should not have done that. The real-life sailors were also robbed of acknowledgment and their promised compensation from the Norwegian government until decades later, which is one of the darker sides of Norway's WW2 history and one of the most important aspects in the aftermath of the war in Norway, but this was also hardly explored and described in this series. Connections Edited from War Sailor War and its brutality in full technicolour.