Into the Darkness Movie Storyline. Patriarch Karl (Jesper Christensen) runs a factory that is doing well enough to keep his alcoholic wife, Eva (Bodil Jørgensen), in pretty frocks and nice tableware while their numerous children have pretty much everything they want. But once the Nazis roll into town, the family is fractured along ideological lines, making for some very awkward Christmas Eves.
Ne’er-do-well eldest Aksel (Mads Reuther) finds himself more sympathetic to anti-Nazi leftists: at first because of his friendship with the housekeeper’s son (Cyron Melville) and later because he fancies a pretty Bolshevik (Kathrine Thorborg Johansen). Meanwhile, another son (Gustav Dyekjær Giese) joins the Danish army and fights side by side with the Germans, and naive daughter Helene (Sara Viktoria Bjerregaard) is smitten with a dashing German U-boat officer, much to the disgust of her mother. Assorted Jewish friends are carted off and killed, leaving various members of the family questioning their choices.
Into the Darkness (2021)
Directed by: Anders Refn
Starring: Jesper Christensen, Bodil Jørgensen, Mads Reuther, Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Sara Viktoria Bjerregaard, Lue Dittmann Støvelbæk, Sylvester Byder, Pernille Højmark, Kathrine Thorborg Johansen
Screenplay by: Flemming Quist Møller, Anders Refn
Production Design by: Sarah Maria Fritsche
Cinematography by: Claus Sisseck, Morten Søborg
Film Editing by: Michael Aaglund
Costume Design by: Anne-Dorthe Eskildsen
Music by: Nikolaj Hess
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Release Date: May 21, 2021
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