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title: "The 12th Man [DVD]"
brand: "harald zwart"
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# The 12th Man [DVD]

**Brand:** harald zwart
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## Description

THE 12TH MAN is a breath-taking war thriller about an incredible true-life story of heroism and a man's unbreakable will to live. Norway, 1943: after a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud (Thomas Gullestad) finds himself on the run from the Gestapo through the snowbound Arctic reaches of Scandinavia led by Kurt Stage (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). It's a harrowing journey across unforgiving, frozen wilderness that will stretch on for months - and force Jan to take extreme action in order to survive. The legendary story of Jan Baalsrud s escape remains one of the wildest, most unfathomable survival stories of World War II.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent story.
  

*by J***6 on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2024*

What a movie. Seen it twice. Extraudinary tale of fortitude and resilience. They sure dont make them like that anymore…. Its a great movie.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The bravest of the brave. ( HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 November 2019*

Well, I can't understand it when people criticize a film simply for being in the Original Languages, in this case Norwegian and German rather than English because while it may be a struggle for some of the more uneducated reviewers here, it adds to the authenticity of the film. Why do so many British people EXPECT  when they go abroad that Foreign Nationals in THEIR OWN country should speak English rather than the British learn a little of the language of the country THEY are visiting?  Twelve Norwegians on a mission, discovered by a German Patrol Boat after a suspicious Norwegian felt it necessary to 'grass up' his countrymen. They scuttle their boat by blowing it up with the tons of TNT on board, Eleven are captured, one of whom is summarily executed and one, Jan Baalsrud (Thomas Gullestad) escapes - to a fashion. He is supported by the ordinary Norwegian peoples who help him try to reach neutral Sweden but not before he suffers from frostbite, gangrene, hunger and a general breakdown in health. He is protected by so many selfless Norwegians who put their own lives on the line at every step. Gullestad lost a tremendous amount of weight during the making of this TRUE STORY. Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays Gestapo Head Kurt  Stage a Nazi fanatic who has never lost a single person allegedly involved in an action against the Germans. Gudrun Gronvoll (Marie Blokhus) protects Baalsrud and undoubtedly begins to have 'feelings' for him. The acting was very convincing down to the smallest role.  Director Harald Zwart did a good job, the Cinematography was wonderful and the costumes of the time but  the make up I thought was exceptional.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Trailers!
  

*by A***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2019*

I'd seen a trailer for “The 12th Man” - it looked good, I thought, and it was a true story, I was told, so I bought a DVD of the film.Based around an incredible WWII commando mission in Nazi occupied Norway, the film does a good job of depicting the people (mainly civilians) that were involved.This is no short film, it couldn't be, if it is to give even a hint of a feeling of what went on and of the time that it took, but the two-hour-ten-minute film has too much repetition and too little variation to the story.With the exception of clothes that look too clean and ironed (having just come straight from the  wardrobe department) to be believable as  clothes worn by those involved (especially the German soldiers), with that ever-present problem of period dramas aside, everything else looks pretty convincing.  Allegedly, lead actor Thomas Gullestad who plays Jan Baalsrud lost 33lbs in eight weeks for the role (that's over half-a-pound a day) and ended up with frost damage after being exposed to minus thirty degrees centigrade temperatures.  Also lead Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Myers had to learn his German lines in two months and he doesn't normally speak German.  So plenty of commitment from some of the actors, but as the really impressive thing about the story is that it actually happened, and once you are aware of that (and one is told at the start of the film what the outcome is) there is then a danger of the film becoming tedious.  The audience is presented with a number of on screen statements saying that Jan Baalsrud has been in “this location” for “x” amount of time so that it doesn't become even more tedious.I think a good film has been made given the constraints of the story (since a great deal of the time there was very little happening other than waiting and a bit more waiting), but if you know the story then a two-hour film needs more happening in it to make more “entertaining” (as the trailer had suggested) and less “documentary-esque”.I know not to give too much significance to trailers when I watch them, but the trailer I saw for this film suggested a different film than the one I watched.Jan Baalsrud's story and that of the civilians involved is a story that deserves to be told, and I applaud all those involved for having made the film.(Three-and-a-half stars out of five.)On the DVD (ASIN:  B07KH1FH1L)“The 12th Man” (2 hours 10 minutes)Scene SelectionSet Up:  5.2 Surround, 2.1 StereoEnglish Subtitles are available, they are embedded and are not optional.

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