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The 12th Man
1943 Norway, north of the Arctic Circle. Twelve Norwegian resistance fighters on a mission to sabotage German ships and outposts are betrayed by a countryman and attacked by a German minesweeper. Eleven of the men are captured, tortured and killed. Only the twelfth man gets away-his name: Jan Baalsrud. With the Gestapo on his heels, Jan escapes into the merciless winter, not realizing that his determination to survive will turn him into a symbol for the Norwegian resistance, a symbol that people are willing to die for.
Director Harald Zwart’s exciting, true-life epic is the movie that he has wanted to make his entire life. He says, “The current generation is only maybe one or two generations removed from the war, but they have no idea how much our forefathers sacrificed in order for us to live under the freedom we can all enjoy today.”
Director Biography
Born in Holland and raised in Norway, Harald Zwart received his formal training at the renowned Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam. Harald moved from Oslo to Los Angeles, and became the first Norwegian director to be accepted into The Director’s Guild of America. Zwart has won numerous awards for his commercial work and has established himself in Hollywood, directing One Night at McCool's ('01), The Karate Kid ('10), and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones ('13). He returns to Norway to make The 12th Man, his first period piece.
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