BETRAYED (Den største forbrytelsen) Samuel Golden Pictures Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net, linked from Rotten Tomatoes by Harvey Karten
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FOLLOWING screenings at BFI Flare, Glasgow Film Festival and Dublin International Film Festival, Anna Kerrigan s poignant drama saddles up for an extended canter in our homes.
Troy (Steve Zahn) heads into the northern Rockies with his 11-year-old transgender son Joe (Sasha Knight), who is obsessed with cowboys and the great outdoors. Father and boy relish the beauty of their surroundings and the opportunity to eat and sleep beneath the stars.
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Steven Spielberg once said of Schindlerâs List that he was telling a story of the Holocaust, not
the story. âThere are millions of stories of the Shoah. Six million of them weâll never hear.â In this heartfelt, restrained movie, Norwegian film-maker Eirik Svensson dramatises the true story of one family of victims from Nazi-occupied Norway. In November 1942, large numbers of Norwegian Jews were rounded up in the middle of the night and taken to a dock in Oslo; 529 were loaded on to a German cargo ship, the SS Donau, and deported to Auschwitz.
Norway confronted by own Holocaust
January 29, 2021
NEWS ANALYSIS: Four recent books and a new film have brought Norwegians face-to-face with one of the darkest chapters in their own history: contributing to the Holocaust. New attention on Norwegian complicity in the arrests and deportation of Norwegian Jews during World War II has implicated wartime resistance heroes and set off massive public debate.
A scene from the new film about the deportation of Jewish Norwegians,
Den største forbrytelsen, based on the book by Norwegian author Marte Michelet. PHOTO: Karl Erik Brøndbo/Fantefilm
It all led to an uncomfortable run-up to this week’s annual if digitalized Holocaust Day ceremonies. The sharp and lengthy debate over one book in particular prompted calls for a truce last month. It’s likely to resume, though, as historians argue over how much resistance heroes and even the Norwegian government in exile in London knew about the deportations in advance, and even why so few