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| Directed by | Ole Christian Madsen |
| Produced by | Lars Bredo Rahbek |
| Written by | Ole Christian Madsen Lars K. Andersen |
| Starring | Thure Lindhardt Mads Mikkelsen Jesper Christensen Peter Mygind Stine Stengade |
| Country | Denmark |
| Language | Danish / German |
Flame & Citron[1] (Danish: Flammen & Citronen) is a 2008 Danish drama/action co-written and directed by Ole Christian Madsen. The film, a fictionalized account based on fact, is about two Danish resistance movement fighters during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.
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Set in between 1943 and 1944, the film is loosely based on actual events involving two of the most active fighters in the Holger Danske resistance group during World War II - Bent Faurschou-Hviid (known as Flammen, played by Thure Lindhardt) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (known as Citron, played by Mads Mikkelsen), who both died toward the end of the war. As the two friends assassinate high-ranking Nazis and their Danish collaborators, they also find themselves in deadly duels with treacherous handlers, competing resistance groups, and a femme fatale (played by Stine Stengade) who might be a double (or even triple) agent. Ultimately, they find that they can only trust one another.
The movie is named from the nicknames of the two main characters. Flammen refers to the colour of Bent Faurschou-Hviid's copper red hair, after a failed attempt to dye it blond.[2] Citron (Danish for Lemon) got his nickname because, while working for the Citroën motor-car company in Copenhagen, he sabotaged German cars and trucks.[3] The Citroën car company's name, a company founded by André-Gustave Citroën, is derived from the Dutch for lemon - citroen. The Citroën family name was originally Citroen but when the family moved from Amsterdam to Paris, in the late 19th century, the spelling was changed by adding a trema diaeresis to make the name appear more French.
Filming took place at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, and large parts of the film were also recorded at locations in Copenhagen and Prague. With a budget of more than 46 million Danish kroner (or 6.16 million Euros), the movie is one of the most expensive Danish language movies ever.[4]
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