WWII Movies from Scandinavia (plus a few other countries)
A list of interesting, lesser-known movies about WWII made by other countries
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- DirectorPekka ParikkaStarsTaneli MäkeläVesa VierikkoTimo TorikkaIn 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.(Finland) Gritty movie about the war in Finland--a war that many Americans don't know about
- DirectorHarald ZwartStarsThomas GullestadJonathan Rhys MeyersMarie BlokhusThey were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one that got away.(Norway) Amazing survival story about the last of an ill-fated band of saboteurs who was sent into Nazi-occupied Norway.
- CreatorPetter S. RosenlundStarsMarc Ben PuchRobert Hunger-BühlerAndreas DöhlerThe story behind Germany's attempt to develop an atomic bomb during World War II and the sabotage of the heavy water program in Rjukan, Norway from the points of view of the Germans, the Allies, the saboteurs, and the company.(Norway) aka "The Heavy Water War"
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsAnni-Kristiina JuusoVille HaapasaloViktor BychkovIn World War II, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial, is almost blown up by Russian planes. A Lapp woman gives shelter to both of them at her farm.In this off-beat movie, a Lapp woman takes in 2 enemy combatants (a Finnish sniper and a downed Russian pilot). None speaks the same language (causing some humorous situations), but they stay together thru the winter.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsMatti OravistoKauko LaurikainenPaul BudskoLieutenant Takala joins a group of war veterans who gather in a restaurant to reminisce their unit's operations on the Finnish-Soviet front. A flashback takes us back to summer 1944 where the unit, led by Takala, performs dangerous guerrilla operations behind enemy lines. A subplot alleges sexual liaisons between soldiers and female volunteers, which caused controversy when the film and the novel it's based on were released in the early 1960s.(Finland)
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneJussi JurkkaTamara LundJune 1944. The attention of the world is focused on Normandy, but the change of the tide can be felt in Finland also. Rumours of preparations of a massive Soviet attack in the Karelian region are heard everywhere. In the Finnish HQ many officers know the attack is coming, but Marshal Mannerheim is not even informed of the most frightening news. The old marshal is turning 77, but the Soviet Union has an unpleasant gift for him. The army is not all prepared, but who is guilty, and to whom belongs the honor?(Finland)
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsEero AhoJohannes HolopainenJussi VatanenA film adaptation of Väinö Linna's best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel's unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.(Finland) It's a film adaptation of Välnö Linna's novel. Some prefer the original 1955 version to this one. Watch both and decide.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard ToddMichael RedgraveUrsula JeansDrama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.(British movie) Docudrama about the development of the 'bouncing bomb' by the British and the Allied raid to take out the German dams in an effort to slow the Nazi war machine.
- DirectorIlkka VanneStarsLaura BirnKaroliina VanneHanna LekanderThe film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.(Finland) Movie about the Lotta Svärd organization of women and their importance to the war effort.
- DirectorJan TroellStarsMax von SydowGhita NørbyAnette HoffNorwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's controversial support for the Nazi regime during World War II and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war.(Norway)
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsJude LawEd HarrisJoseph FiennesA Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.American movie about the battle of Stalingrad with an emphasis on sniper Vassili Zaitsev. High budget and glitzy, but also very Hollywood. For a more balanced, historical perspective, binge watch with the documentary on Stalingrad (2003).
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsDaniel CraigLiev SchreiberJamie BellJewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.(Eastern Europe).
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsCarice van HoutenSebastian KochThom HoffmanIn the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.(Netherlands) Interesting story about the drawbacks of going undercover, but the film was controversial due to the cost (most expensive Dutch movie ever made at the time) and lack of historical accuracy.