JESPER CHRISTENSEN

THE KING'S CHOICE (2017)
Starring Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tuva Novotny, Karl Markovics, Juliane Köhler, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Katharina Schüttler, Arthur Hakalahti, Svein Tindberg and Andreas Lust. Directed by Erik Poppe.

9 April, 1940. As the German war machine arrives in Oslo under the guise of offering the sovereign nation ‘protection’ from the British, the royal family flees the capital, not knowing if they’ll ever see each other again. The aging King Haakon VII and his fiery son the Crown Prince Olav make a dramatic escape from the city into hiding, while Crown Princess Märtha seeks refuge in Sweden with the children.

With the time for mediation between Norway’s passive government and the Nazi’s envoy fast running out, and an attempted coup by collaborator Vikund Quisling underway, King Haakon is faced with a momentous choice: should he recognise Quisling as Prime Minister to prevent bloodshed, or abdicate in the hope of inspiring civilian and military resistance, even with the loss of life that may entail?

INTO THE DARKNESS
Starring Jesper Christensen, Patricia Schumann, Erik Madsen, Birthe Neumann, Cyron Melville, Julie Agnete Vang, Bodil Jørgensen, Mikael Birkkjær, Lisa Carlehed and Sara Viktoria. Directed by Anders Refn.

Karlskov is a self-made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five children. They live the good, privileged upper-class life on Strandvejen north of Copenhagen when the Nazis occupy Denmark in April 1940. Karl struggles to continue production at the factory, but to protect his family and employees he reluctantly begins to produce for the German market. It brings him into a controversial collaboration with the occupying power and causes painful breaks in the family.