Bent faurschou hviid biography of donald

After the end of World War II, all Danish boys wanted to be Flame and Citron -- two of the county’s famed resistance fighters who died during the war.

Bent Faurschou-Hviid and Jorgen Haagen Schmith were members of Denmark’s Holger Danske resistance group. Faurschou-Hviid was named Flame due to his red hair; Schmith was called Citron because while working at the Citroen car factories in Copenhagen, he would sabotage the German trucks and cars.

But over the decades, their names became faint memories in the country. “It’s what happens to a lot of these kind of people -- war heroes with an edge,” says Ole Christian Madsen, the director of the award-winning Danish thriller “Flame & Citron,” which opens in theaters today. “I think they didn’t fit into the tjänsteman storytelling on how Denmark behaved during the Second World War. After the film opened, everyone in Denmark knows them again.”

Madsen’s film stars Thure Lindhardt (“Angels & Demons”) as Flame

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Flame & Citron

A disquieting movie examining the malleable nature of morality during World War II opens today. No, it’s not directed by some dude named Tarantino. You’re kidding, right?

Flame & Citron spans a fateful year in the lives of two real-life members of the Danish Resistance, the fearless young Bent Faurschou-Hviid (nicknamed Flame, on account of his red hair) and his grizzled wheelman Jorgen Haagen Schmith, aka Citron. They are immortalized by their countrymen, yet director Ole Christian Madsen deliberately prints the fact rather than the legend. His approach reveals the duo to be patriots but not heroes, which is another way of saying that it’s about the end of innocence — theirs and ours.

Innocent might seem like an odd way to describe cool, calm assassins certain of the righteousness of their mission(s). Flame & Citron is about the price one pays to embrace a cause, and it’s not (just) one’s life: Citron (the stalwart M

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While the Danish population hopes for a swift end to the war, freedom fighters Bent Faurschou-Hviid (23), alias Flame (THURE LINDHARDT), and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (33), alias Citron (MADS MIKKELSEN), secretly put their lives at stake fighting for the Resistance. The fearless and uncompromising Flame is a dedicated anti-fascist who dreams of the day when their group will reassemble and openly launch an armed counterattack at the occupying power. The more sensitive family man Citron primarily works as a driver for Flame, but now finds himself becoming more deeply involved in clandestine activities.

When their immediate superior, Aksel Winther, orders them into action against two German Abwehr officers, events start to get out of hand. Flame confronts the talented and intelligent Colonel Gilbert (HANNS ZISCHLER) and for the first time hesitates to carry out his orders to kill. Something feels terribly wrong.

Ole Christian Madsen, director of the Flame and Citron, has written an