Blodveien (film)

Blodveien (The Blood Road; Serbo-Croatian: Krvavi put) is a Norwegian-Yugoslav drama film from 1955 directed by Kåre Bergstrøm[1] and Radoš Novaković.[2][3][4] The script was written by Sigurd Evensmo.[5] The film premiered in Norway on February 17, 1955.

This article is about the 1955 Norwegian-Yugoslav film. For the road in Nordland county, Norway, see Blood Road.
Blodveien
Directed byKåre Bergstrøm
Radoš Novaković
Written bySigurd Evensmo
Produced byArild Brinchmann
Mladen Todić
StarringOla Isene
Andreas Bjarke
Tom Tellefsen
Milan Milosević
CinematographyRagnar Sørensen
Edited byNevenka Paskuljević
Music byPredrag Milosević
Distributed byNorsk Film AS
Avala Film
Release date
  • 1955 (1955)
Running time
94 minutes
CountriesNorway
Yugoslavia
LanguagesNorwegian
Serbo-Croatian

Plot

Blodveien portrays the conditions that Yugoslav (mostly Serbian) slave laborers and prisoners of war lived under in Northern Norway in 1942 during the Second World War, when the Germans wanted to build the route known as the "Blood Road" (today part of European route E6 among other routes).

Two local Norwegian friends and construction workers, Ketil and Ivar, serve as construction supervisors on the road under pressure from the Germans. They had earlier helped build the small concentration camp that prisoners later lived in, without understanding what they were involved in. The prisoners are sympathetic toward them because they try to help them to the extent that they can. The Germans take harsh revenge after an escape attempt by shooting some of the prisoners. The Germans, led by the sadistic Schwarz, terrorize and kill prisoners at random almost daily.

Ketil's young son Magnar is bored at home on the small mountain farm and wants to get out and do something with his life. He enlists with the German forces and is made a guard at the prison camp. The prisoner Janko escapes from the camp after being shot by Schwarz. He receives help along the way after his dramatic escape, and is on his way over the mountains toward neutral Sweden when he is captured by Magnar and brought at gunpoint back to the prison camp. Magnar's father Ketil, who was out seeking to help Janko, encounters them and there is a confrontation between the father and son. The father wants all three of them to escape to Sweden, but the son does not. During a scuffle between the father and son, the rifle between them discharges and the son is fatally wounded. The film ends with the father Ketil following Janko to the Swedish border and bidding him farewell with the words Frihet for mennesket 'Freedom for mankind.'[6]

Cast
  • Ola Isene: Ketil[2][7]
  • Andreas Bjarke: Ivar[2]
  • Tom Tellefsen: Magnar, Ketil's son[2][8]
  • Milan Milosević: Janko[2]
  • Milivoj Zivanović: Miljan
  • Liv Strømsted: Ragnhild
  • Lalla Carlsen: Ane
  • Helge Essmar: Guttorm
  • Arne Lie: a Nazi
  • Thor Hjorth-Jenssen: a Nazi
  • Antun Nalis: Schwarz
  • Ivan Jonas: Vlado
  • Mihajlo Paskavljević: the doctor
  • Aca Ognjatović: the actor
  • Marijan Berger: Bojan
  • Dobrica Stefanović: Milenko
  • Janez Vhrovec: Vuk
  • Ivica Kadić: Vjeko
  • Rolf Søder: a soldier

References
  1. Store norske leksikon: Kåre Bergstrøm.
  2. Store norske leksikon: Blodveien.
  3. Maerz, Susanne. 2007. Die langen Schatten der Besatzungszeit. Berlin: BWV, p. 60.
  4. Liehm, Mira, & Antonín J. Liehm. 1977. The Most Important Art: Soviet and Eastern European Film After 1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 131–132.
  5. Store norske leksikon: Sigurd Evensmo.
  6. Norsk filmografi: Blodveien.
  7. Store norske leksikon: Ola Isene.
  8. Store norske leksikon: Tom Tellefsen.
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