Red Meadows (1945)
Going back to 1945 for the first Danish Cannes winner was an insightful glimpse into the historic past of the Danish resistance movement, filmed just months after the end of the war. At first I found the acting to stilted and old fashioned, but the general atmosphere pulled me slowly in. It is a rather simple story following the works of the resistance with basic practicalities of blowing up factories, but as things start to wrong and people end up in jail they suspect they have a Nazi collaborator in the group. While the movie isn’t exactly a historic document, it does capture the general defeatist sense of desperation and how these people in the resistance movement dealt personally with balancing fighting for their country and their personal future outlook. The movie is old fashioned in many ways, but I think it holds up today as a film worth watching.
Rating: 4