![]() ![]() Torgny Gerhard Aanderaa as Sverre Odd Kverhellen.Håkon Thorstensen Nielsen as Erik Reichelt.Trond Peter Stamsø Munch as Aslak Fossvoll.Mads Sjøgård Pettersen as Marius Grønnvoll.Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Sturmbannführer Kurt Stage.Baalsrud is helped to escape from Rebbenesøya to Sweden, via Lyngenhalvøya and Manndalen. He undergoes severe physical trials of endurance and hardship. He receives assistance from locals who risk their lives to help. ![]() The 12th resistance fighter, Jan Baalsrud, manages to escape by hiding and swimming across the fjord, in sub-zero temperatures. Two die from torture while being interrogated, the other captive fighters are executed on Tromsøya, after the German officers interrogate and torture them about their mission. ![]() One is shot on the spot and ten are captured. Eleven of the fighters are rounded up by the Germans on the beach. The resistance fighters ignite the TNT and jump into the water near the fjord. The mission gets into trouble soon after reaching Norway, where their local contact is long dead and their identity is compromised by a German sympathiser, who informs the Germans about their arrival.Ī German warship locates the fishing boat and opens fire. In Shetland, 12 Norwegian resistance fighters board a fishing boat with eight tons of TNT and cross the North Sea as part of Operation Martin with a plan to sabotage German military facilities. The 12th Man tells the dramatic story of Jan Baalsrud's escape from the Nazis during the Second World War. The plot also details the pursuit of Baalsrud from the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) leadership's perspective, depicting the escape as a cat-and-mouse game between Sturmbannführer Kurt Stage and Baalsrud. Like the book, The 12th Man emphasizes the efforts of those who helped Baalsrud escape, which is in line with Baalsrud's own statements about the local population's courage. ![]() The film, based on historical events, was adapted from the book Jan Baalsrud and Those Who Saved Him (2001) by Tore Haug and Astrid Karlsen Scott. mann) is a 2017 Norwegian historical drama film directed by Harald Zwart, starring Thomas Gullestad as Jan Baalsrud, who escapes from occupying Nazi Germans in Rebbenesøya, via Lyngen Fjord and Manndalen, to neutral Sweden in the spring of 1943. He and his wife, Wenche, live in Jessheim, Norway, with their daughter, Carolin.The 12th Man ( Norwegian: Den 12. Haug obtained his professional pilot’s license in the United States and Norway and flew as an executive pilot for five years. He has practiced medicine in Germany and Norway, and is fluent in German, Norwegian, and English. He studied and received his medical degree from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Haug is an M.D., a specialized general practitioner with a private practice in Norway. Today, he is the person who knows the story better than anyone else in Norway. Haug wanted to accurately tell the entire story of Jan and his incredible escape from the Gestapo, and of the undaunted courage of his many benefactors. He found many people whose efforts on Jan’s behalf had not been acknowledged in previous accounts. In 1995, after much research, he traveled with his family to the Troms District in northern Norway to further investigate Jan’s story. He has been fascinated with Baalsrud's escape story since meeting Jan once as a boy in 1956. Tore Haug is a second cousin of Jan Baalsrud. Meticulously researched for more than five years, Karlsen Scott and Haug bring forth the truth behind this captivating, edge-of-your-seat, real-life survival story.ĭr. Suffering from snowblindness and frostbite, more than sixty people of the Troms District risk their lives to help Baalsrud to freedom. The only survivor and wounded, Baalsrud begins a perilous journey to freedom, swimming icy fjords, climbing snow-covered peaks, enduring snowstorms, and getting caught in a monstrous avalanche. However, they were betrayed, and a German boat attacked the cutter, creating a battlefield and spiraling Jan Baalsrud into the adventure of his life. In late March 1943, in the midst of WWII, four Norwegian saboteurs arrived in northern Norway on a fishing cutter and set anchor in Toftefjord to establish a base for their operations. Defiant Courage is the true story of what Jan Baalsrud endured as he tried to escape from the Gestapo in Norway’s Troms District. I sincerely believe we did,” writes author Astrid Karlsen Scott. Since I was a Norwegian that was not good enough I had to find the truth. Then when we went to Norway to do a docudrama, people told us again and again that certain parts were pure fiction. "I remember reading We Die Alone in 1970 and I could never forget it. ![]()
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