Max Manus: Man of War

A gritty, historically grounded account of a Norwegian resistance fighter's dangerous wartime struggle against Nazi occupation, balancing idealism with the psychological toll of sabotage and survival.

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.