Fascinating backroom politics circa WWII are undermined by banal marital melodrama in Danish director Christina Rosendahl’s The Good Traitor, resulting in a so-so period drama that raises more questions than it answers.
The Good Traitor(Vores mand i Amerika)
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Denmark · 2020
1h 56m
Director Christina Rosendahl
Starring Ulrich Thomsen, Denise Gough, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Zoë Tapper
Genre Drama, History
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In a desperate scheme to save his country following the Nazi invasion in 1940, the Danish ambassador to Washington declares himself to be the sole representative of a free Denmark. Based on a true story.
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The Good Traitor is still a solid movie for history buffs and does contain several moments of genuine style, making it well worth the watch.
The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold
Rosendahl’s framing complicates any “great man” narrative of the period, and shows how the energies of public and private worlds course back and forth.
No doubt Henrik Kauffmann (Ulrich Thomsen), the Danish ambassador to the United States during Nazi-occupied Denmark, was good. But The Good Traitor, the pseudo-docudrama depicting his life is sadly not.
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