Quisling: The Final Days

2024 [NORWEGIAN]

Biography / Drama / History / War

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 99% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 99% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 1280 1.3K

based on true story treason post world war ii oslo, norway

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Plot summary

After five years, the German occupation of Norway ends on 8 May 1945. The rebuilding of the nation can begin, but first the final chapter must be written. In a dark cell at Akershus Fortress sits the man who committed the greatest treason of all: Vidkun Quisling. Now he must be held accountable for his actions and the atrocities that Nazi ideology led to.

Director

Erik Poppe Photo
Erik Poppe

Top cast

Gard B. Eidsvold Photo
Gard B. Eidsvold as Vidkun Quisling
Lisa Loven Kongsli Photo
Lisa Loven Kongsli as Heidi Olsen
Anders Danielsen Lie Photo
Anders Danielsen Lie as Peder Olsen
Kristoffer Veiersted Photo
Kristoffer Veiersted as Hirdmann
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25 fps
2 hr 26 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by frankde-jong 8 / 10

Almost a remake of "Winter light" (1963, Ingmar Bergman)

Unlike Sweden Norway has a limited film history. Little was heard about Erik Skjoldbjærg after "Insomnia" (1997) and Thea Hvistendahl ("Handling the undead", 2024) still has to prove herself. The only two vested Norwegian directors seem to be Joachim Trier ("Thelma, 2017 and "The worst person in the world", 2021) and Erik Poppe."Quisling the final days" is the last film in a trilogy Poppe made about right wing extremist ideology."The King's choice" (2016) is about the resistance of King Haakon VII of Norway against the Nazi's in the Second World War. In other words the film is about an historical hero."Utoya, 22 july" (2018) is about the terrorist attack on a childrens summer camp in 2011 by Anders Breivik. It is about current right wing extrimism and is told from the point of view of a victim."Quisling, the final days" (2024) is again situated in (or more precisely just after) the Second World War. It is about the Prime Minister of Norway who collaborated with the Nazi's until the end of the war. The main character of the story this time is a villain. In most Second World War movies the German's are the ultimate villians, but "Quisling, the final days" is about a collaborator for a change.The addition "final days" in the title of the movie indicates that this is not really a biopic. The film starts at the end of the Second World War with the arrest of Quisling. The film essentialy is about Quisling meditating about his deeds during his trial. He does so together with the priest Peder Olsen, who is assigned to him for the salavation of his soul (not his body!).In effect Peder Olsen is just as much a main character as Quisling is. The essence of the film is their relationship and their communication, mostly about religion. With this Poppe firmly stands in the tradition of Ingmar Bergman. The film reminded me very much of "Winter light" (1963, Ingmar Bergman). In "Winter light" a priest doesn't manage to alleviate the fears and doubts of his parishioner. In "Quisling, the final days" on the other hand the priest doesn't manage to sow any doubts in the character of Quisling until almost the very (strong and surprising) end.Quisling stubbornly keeps beleiving that he did nothing wrong and that he saved Norway from Bolshevik Russia. Years ago Quisling had witnessed the famine Stalin created willfully in Ukraine. The rule of thumb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" (wrong as always) drove him in the corner of the Nazi ideology.Coincidentally, "Quisling, the final days" was released in more or less the same period as "Riefenstahl" (2024, Andres Veiel). Whereas Leni Riefenstahl downplayed her relationship with the Nazi's after the Second World War, Quisling almost seems proud of it.Cinema is visual storytelling. In "Quisling, the final days" Poppe uses a color palette in which green and red are very dominant colors. It creates an uncanny mood. In "Beanpole" (2019, Kantemir Balagov) the same colors were used to create the same effect.
Reviewed by jacobjacobjacobjacobjacob 8 / 10

Haunting and tense.

Reviewed by fredrikgunerius 7 / 10

Portrays Quisling with a fairly dignified level of balance

It probably was about time that Norwegian cinema tackled this elephant in the room and made a biopic on Vidkun Quisling, the man who appointed himself Minister President and collaborated with the Nazis during the German occupation of Norway between 1940 and 1945, and paid the ultimate price for his actions when in October 1945 he became the last person to be executed in Norway. The director is Erik Poppe, who has handled Norwegian national traumas skilfully before, notably with Utøya 22. Juli in 2018, and he manages to portray Quisling with a fairly dignified level of balance, even if his dissection becomes lingering at times. The running time most certainly could have been trimmed a little; there are a few too many meetings behind closed doors. And although there is a disruptive dissonance between Eidsvold's imitative rendition of Quisling's intonation and demeanour on the one side, and Danielsen Lie's overly modern approach and delivery, their final scene together ultimately does evoke some of the intended emotion and bond between their two characters. With beautiful CGI recreations of 1940s Oslo which elevate the overall impression.
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