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The Second World War eventually affected the whole world, and in addition to the well-known events, there are also those that we did not learn about in school. The Golden Transport, in the native Norwegian Gulltransporten, offers a story that was inspired by a real event. But it is not a document. The film is rather conceived as a war adventure.
And it begins ominously when air raid sirens interrupt one of the children’s birthday party Fredrik Haslund. The year is 1940 and the German invasion of Norway begins.
As the king and government move to a safer location, plans are made to ensure that the Germans cannot get to the country’s gold reserves. This includes requisitioning all the trucks they can find, including one that belongs to a roughneck Odd Henry. Despite being Haslund an ordinary man rather than a classic hero, he finds himself in the role of truck commander, which take the gold to Lillehammer. The column set off just as the Germans under the command of Major Stoltmann entered the city.
Directed by Hallvard Bræin together with the screenwriters By Sofia Lersol Lund, Thomas Moldestad and Jørgen Storm Rosenberg they mixed facts and historical figures with fictional ones to make the story more leisurely than harshly real. For viewers unfamiliar with this part of Norwegian history, this does not affect the movie experience.
According to critics, Golden Transport is slightly above average and a hundred times unwatchable for Czech viewers nice adventure movie, which sticks to the genre template and takes off after everything seems to be going according to plan. Once the gold and entourage arrive in Lillehammer, they realize it is not safe. Haslund is charged with transporting the gold to the coast and on to England. He is assigned a military escort in the form of Major Sunde and his men, which is nowhere near enough to fend off the Germans if they come across them.
The script hits the mark for viewers who expect from such a film conflicts between civilian and military mission leaders, various setbacks or unexpected heroism and betrayal.
While there are a few bigger action scenes, most of the film relies on tension as the Norwegians try to stay one step ahead of the Germans despite all the setbacks and shifting objectives. Anyone who comes from the home country of the story’s heroes knows how that turned out. The rest of us probably suspect that Bræin can find ways to maintain tension, usually through the drawn-out destinies of individual characters.
The final act is also the film’s biggest action scene. Here, the Norwegians are trying to get the last remnants of the cargo and crew onto the ship, while the Germans bombard the port and the surrounding town.
The film is not marked as a war, but rather a leisurely genre. It does not ignore the reality of war, but it does not have the bleakness of war movies, and the deaths shown on the screen are also minimized.
The film is broadcast on ČT2 on the evening of April 27.
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