Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

jorgenmw «Flammen og Citronen» is a fantastic portrayal of the danish resistance movement during the II. W.W. In addition to being a great historical portrait, it gives an outstanding insight into the depth of war, especially how war - under any circumstances - is 'a loosing game'. Hate, and hate towards a collectively created, one-dimensional enemy, is maybe the most important component in understanding how some of the nazi-sympathizer where able to carry out some of the most cruel deeds ever known to mankind. Nevertheless, hate blinds also the good man. War and humanity are incompatible sizes. Beautiful cinematograpy and brilliant performances. 9/10

ptb-8 Thure Lindstrom has a star showcase in this violent dramatic film of Danish WW2 resistance and quite outshines more famous International co star Mads Mikkelson. FLAMMEN /CITRON is a 'passion/sour' title of love and death among an ever increasingly shifting set of hope and loyalties and duty and disappointments as a large group of resistance fighters try to undermine all Nazi activities in Denmark 1944, whilst avoiding German soldier suspicions, roadblocks and bullets. Then there is disloyalty and subterfuge suspicions and outright assassination. At times cruel and sad, tense and explicit, FLAMMEN/CITRON will not travel outside of Europe well and is bets suited to festivals. It has many visual and pacing similarities to the cretinous INGLORIOUS BASTERDS with long periods of dialog and short horrifying bursts of gunfire death. Possibly better as a TV miniseries FLAMMEN/CITRON makes a slow 130 minutes, held well by Lindstrom especially. Mads does his usual pout.

Sindre Kaspersen Danish screenwriter and director Ole Christian Madsen's fifth feature film which he co-wrote with screenwriter Lars K. Andersen, is based on real events. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, in the Shows section at the 35th Telluride Film Festival in 2008 and is a Denmark-Germany-Norway-Czech Republic-Sweden co-production which was shot on location in Denmark, Czech Republic and Germany and produced by producer Lars Bredo Rahbek. It tells the story about a 23-year-old man named Bent aka "Flammen" who lives with a married couple and a 33-year-old man named Jørgen aka "Citronen" who lives with his wife Bodil and their daughter Anne in Copenhagen, who carries out illegal operations for a police attorney named Aksel Winther.Distinctly and engagingly directed by Danish filmmaker Ole Christian Madsen, this finely paced fictional tale which is narrated by and mostly from the main character's point of view, draws a moving portrayal of two members of the Danish resistance movement and their dedicated fight against Danish informants and Nazis. While notable for its naturalistic milieu depictions, sterling production design by Danish production designer Jette Lehmann, cinematography by Danish cinematographer Jørgen Johansson, costume design by Danish costume designer Manon Rasmussen, fine make-up by make-up artists Sabine Schumann and Jens Bartram and use of sound, this character-driven, narrative-driven and historic story depicts some dense studies of character and contains a good score by Danish composer Karsten Fundal.This somewhat romantic and somewhat biographical neo-noir which is set during World War II and the German occupation of Denmark in the mid-1940s, centers on some of the many sabotage operations that was executed by two of the most prominent resistance fighters in the Holger Danske group and is impelled and reinforced by its cogent narrative structure, subtle character development, mysterious characters and the brilliant acting performances by Danish actors Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen and Danish actress Stine Stengade. A consistently involving and memorable narrative feature which gained, among several other awards, the Bodil Award by Denmark's National Association of Film Critics for Best Cinematography Jørgen Johansson at the 62nd Bodil Awards in 2009.

juntasix I find this story as powerful as other more well known historically accurate pictures. Schindler's List comes to mind. The two tell similarly obscure stories for an American in an impressive way. What I liked the most about Flame & Citron is its examination of personal mores in a desperate situation, across a diverse collection of individuals and roles. Assassins must weigh God-given moral boundaries against the "all's fair in war" freedom. Controller has to balance his devotion (or lack of it) to the resistance with the need to function openly in occupied Denmark. Informer must balance love for individual, hatred of war/Nazis, and desperate need to survive war. Story was powerfully told; I'd like to see an Eng. language production of the same, with as many performers from original as possible. Mads Mikkelsen's Citronen was particularly strong character. Less known history of WII is still as captivating and moving as ever.