Eye Candy #405 - "Flame and Citron"

Flame and Citron:  A WW2 thriller/drama about the real-life exploits of two Danish partisans during World War 2, codenamed “Flame” and “Lemon” (the Citron of the title) who were active for several years, assassinating Danes that collaborated with the Nazis.  They were hardly the smoothest operation, but they were extremely effective, dealing with the constant fear of capture, traitors within their own ranks, handlers with their own agendas, and double agents working both sides of the fence.  They also had juggle their deteriorating family and personal lives and inability to create close relationships, what with the paranoia that war brings.  Mads Mikkelsen is failed father Lemon and Thuri Lindhardt is young, cold-as-ice Flame (he got the name because of his red hair color).  We also get Christian Berkel as the head of the local Gestapo unit responsible for capturing them. While it is grim, grim, grim (as many WW2 films are), it is solid all the way around, with the ending a matter of historical record (the film does take some liberties with the final fates of the two men).   Woodchuck sez, “Good stuff.”