The Last Lieutenant

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The Last Lieutenant ★★½ The Second Lieutenant; Secondloitnanten 1994

Aging Thor Espedal (Skjonberg) is a one-time second lieutenant who has just retired from the Merchant Marines and returned home to his beloved wife, Anna (Tellefsen). But since the year is 1940, his retirement is interrupted by the German Army invading his country. Espedal enlists in the resistance effort but finds the army in complete disarray. Still the old man and a group of volunteers become determined to hold a key mountain pass. Norwegian with subtitles. 102m/C VHS, DVD . NO Espen Skjonberg, Bjorn Sundquist, Rut Tellefsen, Gard B. Eidsvold, Lars Andreas Larssen; D: Hans Petter Moland; W: Hans Petter Moland, Axel Hellstenius; C: Harald Gunnar Paalgard; M: Randall Meyers.

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