I slik en natt

1958
1h 38m

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Based on a true story, this almost documentary-like drama tells the story of a young doctor, who in 1942, helped several Jewish children escape over the German border to neutral Sweden. Not ... Read allBased on a true story, this almost documentary-like drama tells the story of a young doctor, who in 1942, helped several Jewish children escape over the German border to neutral Sweden. Not knowing who to trust and being pursued by the Germans, the flight quickly turns into a ten... Read allBased on a true story, this almost documentary-like drama tells the story of a young doctor, who in 1942, helped several Jewish children escape over the German border to neutral Sweden. Not knowing who to trust and being pursued by the Germans, the flight quickly turns into a tense fight for their lives.

Director
- Sigval Maartmann-Moe
Writers
- Colbjörn Helander
- Sigval Maartmann-Moe
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5.5/10

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Director
- Sigval Maartmann-Moe
Writers
- Colbjörn Helander
- Sigval Maartmann-Moe
Stars

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

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Gestapos hunt for jewish children one night during the world war 2.

The title of the film is borrowed from a poem by Wergeland called the Jew, and is also based on true events from the fall 1942.

The film deals about the German Gestapos hunt for Jewish children one night during the world war 2. A group of orphanages manages to escape from the Gestapo helped by a young doctor played by Anne Lise Tangstad. The children are transported to a farm and kept safe there, waiting for another transport over the border to Sweden.

Moes use of real German actors, Günther Hüttmann and Ottakar Panning, both speaking German in the film, adds an element of realism to the film. The director had himself experienced the terror of the SS-officers and saw the importance of Germans in these roles.

Today the film can be viewed upon as another Norwegian post war film. This film is made after NI LIV from 1957, and if it`s nomination from the Academy Awards has something to do with the making of I SLIK EN NATT is not known. Before his last film as director, I SLIK EN NATT, Moe made the year before a family crimefilm, PETER VAN HEEREN.

Does the jewish children make the border to Sweden, and what happens to the beautiful doctor? You have to watch it to find out.

kkrogstad
Mar 28, 2004
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The character of Liv Kraft, the young doctor who helps the children escape, is made up of several real-life women. The real events took place in Nazi-occupied Norway in November 1942. The title "I slik en natt" (In a night like this) is from the poem "Jøden" (the jew) by Norway's popular poet Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845).