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A Norwegian war film about the sinking of the cruiser Blücher is coming out in September. The trailer looks promising (only in Norwegian I’m afraid:)
https://youtu.be/dXtL355oWtM

Micael wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:32 pm A Norwegian war film about the sinking of the cruiser Blücher is coming out in September. The trailer looks promising (only in Norwegian I’m afraid:)
https://youtu.be/dXtL355oWtM

Oh, that looks remarkable.

Mike

Most excellent!

BTW... Did anyone hear a bunch of horses whinnying?

https://youtu.be/nx8LjVmoSZk?feature=shared

Rocket J Squrriel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 11:06 pm Most excellent!

BTW... Did anyone hear a bunch of horses whinnying?

https://youtu.be/nx8LjVmoSZk?feature=shared

BLUECHER!

What knockers!

Micael wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:32 pm A Norwegian war film about the sinking of the cruiser Blücher is coming out in September. The trailer looks promising (only in Norwegian I’m afraid:)
https://youtu.be/dXtL355oWtM

Is it better than this? I really must watch the full movie.

https://youtu.be/Be4bLNa15hk?si=EbIlbR5gZhloUrTe

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sat May 03, 2025 1:59 pm

Micael wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:32 pm A Norwegian war film about the sinking of the cruiser Blücher is coming out in September. The trailer looks promising (only in Norwegian I’m afraid:)
https://youtu.be/dXtL355oWtM

Is it better than this? I really must watch the full movie.

https://youtu.be/Be4bLNa15hk?si=EbIlbR5gZhloUrTe

Remains to be seen, but I think it has got a potential to be.

Micael wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:32 pm (only in Norwegian I’m afraid:)

Translation of spoken lines and interspersed text cards, with time stamps:

00:01: "Gun One!"
00:03: "Fire!"
00:06: "Eriksen: You may perhaps start by telling about conditions at Oscarsborg and what happened there."
Text card: "Oscarsborg Fortress April 1940"
00:19: "How many men do you have here now?"
00:21: "As of today we are 27."
00:24: "Do You think something is going to happen?"
00:27: "Yes?"
00:28: "We have just observed an unknown ship out here."
00:31: "When did this report come in?"
00:32: "Father, what is it?"
Text card: "The most important event in Norwegian war history"
00:37: "Emergency flares have been launched from one of our patrol vessels by Færder."
00:41: "What type of flares?"
00:43: "Red."
00:45: "It is not in our interest to make any rushed decisions now."
00:48: "There is no order to mobilise or declaration of war."
00:51: "We do not know if it is a warship."
00:58: "I want the following message dispatched to all sections of the fortress:"
01:02: "Make ready for battle."
01:11: "We need to man two guns, otherwise we stand no chance."
01:14: "We barely have enough people for one."
01:18: "Are there warships out there in the fjord?"
01:20: "We're not talking about one, we're talking about five."
Text card: "One man's decision"
Text card: "All of Norway's fate"
01:27: "Going against regulations is unheard of."
01:29: "Damned right we'll fire warshot!"
01:33: "But You agree that it is not by regulation?"
01:42: "There were quite a few things that could not be done according to regulation that night."

The B&W scenes where Colonel Birger Eriksen is in civlian clothes, talking to a civilian and a naval officer, must be from interviews done either by the Investigative Commission of 1945 or by the Military Investigative Commission of 1946.

The Norwegian coastal artillery at the time was part of the navy, but had moved back and forth between being part of the army and the navy, so some CA officers had army ranks and some had naval ranks.