Max Manus: Man of War

About Max Manus: Man of War

Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.

Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning directed Max Manus: Man of War, a 2008 crime history film. Aksel Hennie takes the lead as Max Manus, Agnes Kittelsen as Ida Nikoline 'Tikken' Lindebrække, Nicolai Cleve Broch as Gregers Gram, and Christian Rubeck as Kolbein Lauring.

Released in December 2008, it runs 118 minutes. Written by Thomas Nordseth-Tiller.

Shelv files it under train, trauma, bomb, and resistance. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV in the United States. It scores 7.1 out of 10 from 293 TMDB voters.

Casablanca, Valkyrie, and A Man Escaped make useful companions to Max Manus: Man of War, all filed under escape and nazi.