Into the Darkness (2020)

Original title

De forbandede år

Directed by

Anders Refn

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Denmark

Runtime

2h 33m

Rated

15

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 48 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During the early years of World War II in Denmark, a factory-owning family faces difficult choices to survive and protect their business. Each member takes a different path, from resisting German influence to supporting the Nazis, creating deep divisions at home.

tensesomberfamily-centricrestrainedhistorically groundedmorally complexslow-burnatmosphericbittersweet

What happens

Into the Darkness (Danish: De forbandede år – "the cursed years") is a 2020 Danish drama film directed by Anders Refn. It is the first of two films following the members of the Skov family as they live through the first years of Denmark's involvement in World War II, from the German invasion in April 1940 until the end of 1942 and the imminent defeat of Axis forces engaged in the Battle of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union. The sequel Out of the Darkness depicts the family as it navigates the later years of the war. The film depicts the owners of a Copenhagen electronics factory, Karl and Eva Skov and their children as they follow disparate paths, including Karl's and Eva's efforts to keep the factory open to provide for its employees while avoiding collaboration with Germany; their daughter marrying a German Navy officer; one son joining the pro-Nazi Free Corps Denmark in order to fight Communism and another participating in a Communist-aligned cell of the Danish resistance movement. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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