Flame & Citron

Flame & Citron

130 mins | Drama, War, History | March 25, 2008

During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?

Flame & Citron

130 mins | Drama, War, History | March 25, 2008

Flame & Citron
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Canal+, Det Danske Filminstitut, Nimbus Film, Wüste Filmproduktion, Studio Babelsberg, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, TV 2, SVT, TV 2, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Yle, Sandrew Metronome Danmark, The Match Factory, Sirena Film, Fonds Eurimages du Conseil de l'Europe, Wüste Film Ost, OC Film, Duckling, Mainstream, Kameraudlejningen, 4½, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, NFP Marketing & Distribution, Substanz Film, Deutscher Filmförderfonds
Original title Flammen & Citronen
Directors Pavla Marková, Linda Daae, Ole Christian Madsen
Writers Lars Andersen, Ole Christian Madsen

Cast

Thure Lindhardt

as Flame

Mads Mikkelsen

as Citron

Stine Stengade

as Ketty Selmer

Peter Mygind

as Winther

Mille Lehfeldt

as Bodil

Christian Berkel

as Hoffmann

Hanns Zischler

as Gilbert

Lars Mikkelsen

as Ravnen

Jesper Christensen

as Flames Vater

Thomas Voss

as Teddy

Peter Plaugborg

as Lillebjørn

Martin Hestbæk

as Storebjørn

Malene Schwartz

as Gilbert's Wife