The Boys from St. Petri (1991)

Original title

Drengene fra Sankt Petri

Directed by

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

7

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of Danish schoolboys secretly resist the Nazi occupation during World War II. They carry out acts of sabotage and face dangerous consequences.

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What happens

The Boys from St. Petri (Danish: Drengene fra Sankt Petri) is a 1991 Danish drama film directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. The film is inspired by the activities of the Churchill Club, but the actual plot is fiction. It is based on Bjarne Reuter's book Drengene fra Sankt Petri. It has been published in English as Boys from St. Petri. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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