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- Based on the true story of a Norwegian military mission that went horribly wrong in 1943 — 12 saboteurs sailed from Shetland to occupied Norway to destroy strategic Nazi targets.
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The 12th Man (Norwegian: Den 12. mann) is a 2017 Norwegian historical drama film directed by Harald Zwart, starring Thomas Gullestad as Jan Baalsrud, who escapes from occupying Nazi Germans on the island of Rebbenesøya, via the Lyngen Fjord and Manndalen, to neutral Sweden in the spring of 1943.
Mar 30, 2020 · How The 12th Man stayed alive: the true history behind Netflix's subzero survival story Jan Baalsrud fled the Nazis in the most unforgiving conditions imaginable. Thanks to DIY surgery and...
Based on a true story, the film tells the story of twelve resistance fighters who were dropped into the country's arctic territory. Eleven are captured or killed almost immediately, but Jan...
- You Can Visit The Locations from The Films
- Jan Bålsrud’S First Refuge Was in Karlsøy
- In Furuflaten, Lyngen You Can See A Small Exhibition
- The ‘Hotell Savoy’ Was A Refuge For Jan Bålsrud
- Bålsrudshula Is Where He Spent Most of His Time During The Escape
- His Gravestone Is Found in Manndalen
- The Brattholm Monument Can Be Found in Tromsø
- You Can Retrace His Footsteps on An Annual March
The story is recounted in David Howarth’s book We Die Alone, first published in 1955. In 1957, the book was made into a film, which was nominated for an Oscar and voted Norway’s best film of all time. In 2017, The 12th Man, a completely new version of the story, will be released. However, film buffs and military history enthusiasts will be interest...
Toftefjorden, on the island of Rebbenesøya, where the dramatic escape began, is uninhabited today. However, there is a memorial to the Brattholm tragedy in the form of 11 pebbles from the area, one for each of those who died. In the now abandoned Haugland farm on the island of Hersøya, Jan Baalsrud was given shelter and food for the first time. The...
After getting lost in a snowstorm in the Lyngen Alps, Jan Baalsrud sought shelter in a hay barn above the village of Furuflaten. The barn is still there today. In the community centre is a simple exhibition about Jan Baalsrud, which includes treasures such as his skis. They were found in the mountains in the following summer after being used as a m...
On the other side of the fjord, which Jan Baalsrud reached on 12 April after being taken across the water, is a small basic cabin with no heating, ironically named the Hotel Savoy. Today, there is no evidence to indicate what happened here, but many people have written in the notebook which is used as a visitors’ book. Although the restored cabin l...
Jan Baalsrud’s longest stay anywhere during his escape was in a mountain fissure at the top of the Manndalen valley. A 5.5-kilometre trail leads to this fissure, the same trail that the people of Manndalen used when they sneaked up to Jan Baalsrud to bring him food. The trail is easy to follow, almost free from rocky sections and with only short st...
Baalsrud’s final wish before he died in 1988 was to be buried in the churchyard in Manndalen. His headstone is modestly situated next to the fence by the entrance to the churchyard, and is no different from any of the other headstones, except for the inscription: “Thank you to everyone who helped me to freedom in 1943”.
At the place where eight of the 11 onboard the MS Brattholm were executed stands a memorial today. The memorial is now in the grounds of the University of Tromsø and is engraved with the names of all of those who died.
Every year at the end of July, the Jan Baalsrud March takes place. It is 200 kilometres long and crosses the islands of Rebbenesøya and Ringvassøya, the Lyngen peninsula and the mainland east of Lyngenfjorden. The march takes eight days and you can do either all of the march or just part of it.
May 4, 2018 · But Harald Zwart, Hollywood CV notwithstanding, is a child of the Netherlands, and has long cherished a desire to tell the story of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian resistance soldier. Trained in the U.K., Baalsrud was part of a dozen fighters sent to Norway on a mission to wreck a German airbase there.
Apr 17, 2020 · Based on the true story of a Norwegian military mission that went horribly wrong in 1943 — 12 saboteurs sailed from Shetland to occupied Norway to destroy strategic Nazi targets.
The 12th Man is based on his true story of escape and survival from a compromised and failed Norwegian Resistance commando raid in Northern Norway in 1943. He was the only escapee from his squad of twelve and was able to evade capture from the occupying German forces for over two months, despite suffering from frostbite, gangrene from a gun ...
