The Good Traitor
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Danish | Vores mand i Amerika |
Directed by | Christina Rosendahl |
Written by | Kristian Bang Foss Dunja Gry Jensen Christina Rosendahl |
Starring | Ulrich Thomsen |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | Denmark |
Languages | Danish English |
Box office | $11,274[1] |
The Good Traitor (Danish: Vores mand i Amerika) is a 2020 Danish drama film about Henrik Kauffmann and the signing of the Greenland treaty with the United States after the Nazi occupation of Denmark during World War II.
Cast
[edit]- Ulrich Thomsen as Henrik Kauffmann
- Denise Gough as Charlotte Kauffmann
- Mikkel Boe Følsgaard as Povl Bang-Jensen
- Zoë Tapper as Zilla Sears
- Burn Gorman as Berle
- Henry Goodman as Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Esben Dalgaard Andersen as Einar Blechingberg
- Ross McCall as Mason Sears
- Pixie Davies as Poppin Sears
- Amber Fernée as Tilda Kauffmann
- Rosemary Aburrow as Lisa Kauffmann
- Søren Sætter-Lassen as Nils Svenningsen
- Nicholas Blane as Winston Churchill
- Miri-Ann Beuschel as Lauring
- Henrik Noël Olesen as Arno
- Hans Henrik Clemensen as Statsminister Buhl
- Scott Alexander Young as General Hobbs
- Robert Jackson as Ejendomsmágler
Reception
[edit]On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Good Traitor holds an approval rating of 44% based on 16 reviews.[2] The New York Times complimented, The Good Traitor "shows how the energies of public and private worlds course back and forth".[3] Variety was less complimentary, "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."[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Vores mand i Amerika (2020)". The Numbers. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ "The Good Traitor (2020)", Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango, retrieved 30 October 2021
- ^ Nicolas Rapold (25 March 2021). "'The Good Traitor' Review: The Defiant Diplomat". New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- ^ Alissa Simon (9 March 2021). "'The Good Traitor' Review: Wartime Intrigue Spices Up Otherwise Dull Marital Drama". Variety. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
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