Flammen og Citronen/Flame & Citron — News

I just read in two Danish newspapers that Mads is going to do a new Danish film called "Flammen og Citronen", meaning "The Flame and the Lemon".

Ole Christian Madsen is going to be the director. Same director as Prag, Unit One and several other Danish productions.

The name of the film might sound weird, but it's about two Danish resistant movement members (during World War II) with those two codenames. They existed for real, worked against the nazis when Denmark was occupied by Germany 1940-1945 and they are very famous in Denmark.

The shooting of the film which is to take place in Denmark, Prag (again!) and Berlin is supposed to start in March 2007. The premiere of the film is due to the beginning of 2008.

Nice to hear about a new Danish film!!!

Mikkelsen og Lindhardt i ny storfilm

d. 9. november, 2006, kl. 16:31 af Peter Schiødt

Mads Mikkelsen skal spille den ene af de to store roller, når instruktøren Ole Christian Madsen til marts indleder optagelserne til "Flammen og citronen". Det skriver netudgaven af det britiske filmmagasin Screen.

Thure Lindhardt spiller den anden halvdel af det berømte par, hvis hovedopgave under Anden Verdenskrig bestod i at likvidere danske stikkere.

Filmen optages i Danmark, i Prag og i Babesberg-studierne uden for Berlin. Det ventes, at "Flammen og citronen" får biografpremiere i begyndelsen af 2008


Mikkelsen and Lindhardt in major new film

on 9 November, 2006 at. 16:31 by Peter Schiødt

Mads Mikkelsen will play one of the two major roles as director Ole Christian Madsen to March initiates filming of "The Flame and the lemon". It writes online version of the British film magazine Screen.

Thure Lindhardt play the second half of the famous couple, whose main task during the Second World War was to liquidate Danish assemblies.

The film recorded in Denmark in Prague and in Babenberg studios outside Berlin. It is expected that the "Flame and lemon" will premiere in early 2008

DANISH FLAME & CITRON AT DKK 45+ MILLION

Danish director Ole Christian Madsen revive Danish World War II heroes in Flammen og Citronen (Flame & Citron/working title), starring Thure Lindhardt as one of the two legendary top members of the Resistance

Shortly before the Danish release (Friday, 3 November) of his new feature, Prag (Prague) – the Mads Mikkelsen-Stine Stengade starrer, which was launched at the Toronto International Film Festival – Danish director Ole Christian Madsen has received DKK 10.8 million production support from the Danish Film Institute for Flammen og Citronen (Flame & Citron/working title), one of the most expensive Danish-language films ever produced.

On a DKK 45+ million budget, Madsen and Nimbus Film will revive two World War II heroes in the Danish Resistance. Thure Lindhardt will play one of the leads, and producer Lars Bredo Rahbek expected the remaining cast will be announced in December. The financial packaging of the film, which will shoot from Monday, 5 March in Denmark, the Czech Republic (Prague) and Germany (Berlin’s Babelsberg Studios), is not fully completed. FilmFolket-Loke Havn will handle local distribution.

Penned by Madsen with Lars K Andersen, Flammen og Citronen (which were the code names of Bent Faurschou Hviid and Jørgen Haagen Schmidt) follows the two members of the Holger Danske resistance group who were initially assigned to kill Danish informers, later ordered to liquidate Germans. They never question their commanders until one day as Flammen is told to execute his girlfriend, Ketty, a Stockholm courier. The fight for freedom has entered a grey area where it is increasingly difficult to decide who is with whom.

Citronen was killed on 14 October 1944, in a shoot-out with the German secret police, Gestapo, and German soldiers. He was 33 years old. Aged 23, Flammen committed suicide a few days later (18 October), when he was captured, unarmed, swallowing poison to avoid falling into Gestapo’s hands.

En dag som instruktørassistent for Ole Christian Madsen. Vær med en dag bag kameraerne på Ole Christian Madsens næste film FLAMMEN & CITRONEN. Som en flue på væggen kan du se, hvordan besættelsestidens barske virkelighed skildres i denne stort anlagte film, hvor Mads Mikkelsen og Thure Lindhardt spiller hovedrollerne som modstandsfolkene Flammen og Citronen, der kæmper det godes sag, i en tid hvor grænserne mellem rigtigt og forkert var lige så uklare som landets fremtid. Du vil se med på tætteste hold under optagelserne, samt få lejlighed til at tale Varenr: 919892

Vurdering	Showroom	Udløbstid	Hammerslag
DKK 20.000	DK, Herlev, Dynamovej	14-02-2007 11:21:00	DKK 6.400

One day as assistant director for Ole Christian Madsen. Take a day behind the cameras at Ole Christian Madsen's next film Flame & Citron. As a fly on the wall you can see how the occupation period harsh reality portrayed in this large-scale movie where Mads Mikkelsen and Thure Lindhardt star as resistance fighters Flame and Citron, who are fighting for good, at a time when the boundaries between right and wrong was as unclear as the country's future. You will see at close quarters during filming, and have an opportunity to talk no: 919892

Estimate	Showroom	Closing	Hammer
DKK 20.000	DK, Herlev, Dynamovej	14-02-2007 11:21:00	DKK 6.400

Very interesting website. It's a Danish auction site for art, design etc. Apparently they have had a special auction for raising funds for fighting AIDS in Africa (where people have donated things for the auction). Seems like OC Madsen donated a day at the filming of Flammen & Citronen. An oportunity to accompany him during a whole day when shooting the film as his "assistant", being able to watch everything as "a fly on the wall" (quoting the description for the auction).

The auction ended on Feb 14th, and somebody won the auction at 6400 Danish kroner ($1,133.04 USD).

Dansk storfilm om Flammen og Citronen

16. okt. 2006 18.00 Kultur

To af besættelsestidens største myter bringes nu til live på film. Det Danske Filminstitut har givet 10,8 millioner kroner til en film om det legendariske makkerpar i modstandsbevægelsen, "Flammen" og "Citronen".

I alt skal der bruges mere end 45 millioner kroner til filmen, der dermed bliver en af de dyreste dansksprogede film nogensinde, oplyser filminstituttet.
Filmen laves som co-produktion med Tyskland og med bl.a. TV2. Efter Filminstituttets støttetilsagn mangler dog fortsat 13 mio. kroner, som skal rejses i Norge, Sverige og Tyskland samt hos større erhvervsvirksomheder herhjemme.

Det er Ole Christian Madsen, der har skrevet manuskriptet til filmen sammen med Lars K. Andersen.

"Flammen og Citronen" får premiere i de første vintermåneder i 2008.


Danish great film about Flame and Citron

16th October 2006 18:00 Culture

Two of occupation the greatest myths is now brought to life on film. The Danish Film Institute has provided 10.8 million dollars to a film about the legendary duo in the resistance movement, "Flame" and "Citron".

In total, spent more than 45 million dollars for the film, which becomes one of the most expensive Danish-language film ever, says film institute.
The film made as a co-production with Germany and with such TV2. After DFI support commitments deficiencies still 13 million. dollars, to be raised in Norway, Sweden and Germany as well as in larger businesses at home.

It's Ole Christian Madsen, who wrote the screenplay for the film with Lars K. Andersen.

"Flame and Citron" will premiere in the early winter months of 2008.

Danish WWII thriller FLAME & CITRON wrapping Prague shoot

by Theodore Schwinke, April 18, 2007

Production on Danish WWII thriller Flame & Citron is scheduled to wrap Saturday in Prague before moving on to Germany and Denmark, producer Lars Bredo Rahbek told ScreenDaily.com.

Director Ole Christian Madsen (En Kærlighedshistorie) started filming March 19 in Prague, using a retro-fitted warehouse as a studio. Other studio spaces in the Czech capital are occupied by crews working on Disney/Walden's The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Universal's Wanted.

Rahbek said the production needed to recreate historical scenes from 1944 Copenhagen and that the present-day city was too modern. "We scouted around Central Europe," he told ScreenDaily.com. "We looked at Riga, which bears an uncanny resemblance to Copenhagen in terms of architecture, but it didn't have what we needed in terms of infrastructure."

Rahbek said a key decision behind the Prague shoot was the positive experience Nimbus Film Productions had shooting Madsen's film Prague in the Czech capital. Local production service company Sirena Film worked with Madsen on that project and serves as co-producer on Flame & Citron.

The producers also achieved considerable savings by shooting in Prague. "For us as Danish producers it's an extremely expensive production," Rahbek said. "I think it's the biggest budget Danish film to date." Rahbek put the budget for the film at $8.6m (Euros 6.3m).

From Prague the production moves to Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam and then to Copenhagen, where it is scheduled to wrap June 13.

Rahbek (A Soap) and Morten Kaufmann (Prague) serve as producers on the project. Wueste Filmproduktion is the German partner. Financing also comes from Nimbus Film Rights, the Danish Film Institute, TV2 Danmark, MBB Berlin Brandenburg, the Nordic Film & TV Fund and Eurimages, among others. "Financing is enormously complex," Rahbek said, adding that 28 parties contributed to the project.

The film is based on a true story and stars Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) and Thure Linhardt as Resistance fighters who carried out assassinations during the German occupation of Denmark.

FilmFolket A/S will distribute the film in Denmark, where it is scheduled to premiere in early 2008. The Match Factory is handling international sales.

Rahbek hopes the historical aspects of the film will draw Danish audiences while the action story will appeal to international audiences. "It's a very taut thriller, but it's structured to have a very broad appeal," he said.

Mads Mikkelsen i lære som frihedskæmper

Flammen & Citronen , der har Thure Lindhardt og Mads Mikkelsen i hovedrollerne, bliver den dyreste dansksprogede film nogensinde. Instruktøren Ole Christian Madsen vil vise, hvordan det er at være frihedskæmper

9. juni 2007 kl. 12:16 • Simon Vöge Hansen

Efteråret 1944. Den tyske krigsmaskine skramler hjemad mod Das Vaterland tæt forfulgt af russere på østfronten og de allierede i Vesteuropa. I Danmark er der omsider kommet gang i modstandskampen. Helt i front er Bent Faurschou Hviid og Jørgen Haagen Schmidt, med dæknavnene Flammen og Citronen.

Drevet af lige dele had til nazisterne og fædrelandskærlighed gør de livet mere end almindelig surt for Hipo-folk, stikkere og andre kollaboratører i det besatte Danmark. Landets mest eftersøgte duo når – inden de bliver fanget af Værnemagten i oktober 1944 – at likvidere over 30 mennesker.

Pengene forsvinder

Det er den dramatiske historie om Flammen & Citronen , som instruktøren Ole Christian Madsen er ved at lægge sidste hånd på. Om en uge slutter filmoptagelserne, der med et budget på mere end 45 millioner kroner er de dyreste i dansk filmhistorie.

»Jeg har egentlig ikke mærket, at der har været flere penge til rådighed end ellers. Det er ekstremt ressourcekrævende at tegne et historisk billede fra besættelsestiden, så pengene forsvinder hurtigt,« siger instruktøren i en pause mellem filmoptagelserne på Østerbro i København.

Det virker da heller ikke som om, der er sparet på noget on location. Et mondænt ambassadekvarter er i dagens anledning helt afspærret for trafik. Statister iført tidstypisk tøj anno 1944 venter med deres sortlakerede cykler og id-papirer foran en bemandet vejkontrol. Gruppen med sortklædte nazi-sympatisører fra Schalburgkorpset spiller nervøse og pirrelige.

Stemningen intensiveres, da en grå Ford, model 1938, hakker sig langsomt op imod afspærringen. I bilen sidder Thure Lindhardt og Mads Mikkelsen alias frihedskæmperne Flammen og Citronen. Begge i danske politiuniformer.


På flugt

»Polizei.«

En nazist med højskaftede ridestøvler råber, mens han retter en pistol mod Fordens forrude. Bilen stopper, og Thure Lindhardt og Mads Mikkelsen bliver resolut overmandet med slag og spark. Efter et velrettet håndkantslag flyver Thures politikasket af og afslører en purpurrød hårpragt med en sideskilning skåret i granit. Mads Mikkelsen bærer små runde briller – sygekassemodellen.

Ansigterne er grå og fyldt med daggamle skægstubbe. Sådan ser man ud, når man er på flugt fra den tyske Værnemagt og en hel del danske nazi-sympatisører.
Håndbog i modstand

Ole Christian Madsen afslører, at Flammen & Citronen ikke så meget handler om, hvorfor ungkarlen Bent Faurschou Hviid og familiefaren Jørgen Haagen Schmidt gik så eftertrykkeligt ind i modstandskampen. Filmen er derimod mere en slags ABC for modstandsfolk – en lærebog i, hvordan frihedskæmpere gebærder sig under en besættelse.

»Der bliver slet ikke snakket motivation i filmen. Vi ved, at Flammen var glødende anti-fascist, og at Citronen var national og troede på Gud, konge og fædreland, men det er ikke det, filmen handler om. Jeg forholder mig praktisk til det at være modstandsmand og til håndværket bag. Det er den største forskel på Flammen og Citronen og så andre danske film om modstandskampen,« siger Ole Christian Madsen.

Mads Mikkelsen, der stadig har askegrå makeup på, supplerer:

»Filmen handler også om, hvad krig gør ved mennesker,« siger han.


Tyskerne kommer

En enkelt scene har brændt sig dybt ind på nethinden hos Mads Mikkelsen.

»Vi skulle lave en scene, der viste, hvordan tyskerne rullede ind over grænsen 9. april 1940, og det var altså voldsomt at kigge på. Hvis det skete i dag, så kunne det godt være, at man ville sige: På med arbejdshandsken , ligesom Flammen og Citronen gjorde,« siger den danske stjerneskuespiller.

»Og det gjorde det heller ikke bedre, at statisterne i tyske uniformer oven i købet talte tysk sammen,« tilføjer Thure Lindhardt.

De to skuespillere lægger ikke skjul på, at de har respekt for deres karakterers historiske betydning.

»Jeg synes stadig, man skal takke dem, der ofrede deres liv dengang. Hvis det ikke havde været for modstandskæmperne, havde vi været russere i dag. Så enkelt kan det siges,« siger Mads Mikkelsen.


Mads Mikkelsen in role as patriot

"The Flame & the Lemon" that has Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen in the leading roles, becomes the most expensive Danish-speaking film ever. The director Ole Christian Madsen will show what it is to be a patriot.

9. juni 2007 kl. 12:16 • Simon Vöge Hansen

Autumn 1944. The German military machine rattles home against Das Vaterland closely chased by Russians at the eastern front and allies in Western Europe. In Denmark there has finally been more activity in the resistance. Entirely at the front are Bent Faurschou Hviid and Jørgen Haagen Schmidt with the aliases of the Flame and the Lemon. With equal parts of hatred of the Nazis and patriotism they make life more than a common misery for Hipo-peoples, informers and other collaborators in occupied Denmark . The country's most wanted duo succeeds - before they are caught by the Wehrmacht in October 1944 - liquidating over 30 people.


The Money Disappears

It's the dramatic story about "Flammen & Citronen" that director Ole Christian Madsen is putting the finishing touches on. In a week, the shooting of a film with a budget of more than 45 million kroners, the largest in Danish film-history, ends.

"I have really not felt that there has been more available money than otherwise. It's extremely demanding on resources to draw a historical picture from the time's best story, thus the money disappears quickly", the director says in a break between the shooting of the film in Østerbro in Copenhagen.

It doesn't work either if something on location is economized . A fashionable embassy quarter in honor of the occasion is completely blocked for traffic. Walk-ons dressed in a time-typical clothes in the year 1944 wait with their black-lacquered bicycles and ID papers in front of a manned road patrol. The group with dressed in black nazi-sympathizers from Schalburgkorpset is acting nervous and irritable.

The atmosphere is intensified when a gray Ford model 1938 hacks itself slowly up against the barricade. In the car sit Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen, the patriots known aliasly as Flammen and Citronen. Both are in Danish police uniforms.


On Escape

A Nazi with high cut riding boots shouts while he aims a pistol at the Ford's windscreen. The car stops, and Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen are resolutely overpowered with blows and kicks. A well-directed edge-of-hand blow knocks off Thure's hat and reveals crimson hair with a side parting cut in granite. Mads Mikkelsen carries small round glasses - the kind one associates with someone who is sickly. The faces are gray and filled with day-old stubble. That's how they look when on the run from the German Wehrmacht and a great deal of Danish nazi-sympathizers.


Handbook on Resistance

Ole Christian Madsen reveals that "the Flame & the Lemon" doesn't bargain over why the bachelor Bent Faurschou Hviid and the family father Jørgen Haagen Schmidt went into the resistance so emphatically. The film is more of a kind of ABC guide for people fighting in a resistance - a textbook on how patriots behave with an obsession.

"They do not all talk motivation in the film. We know that the Flame was a glowing anti-fascist, and that the Lemon was a national and thought of God, king and his country, but that's not all that the film is about. I consider it to be a film also about what it's like to be a member of the resistance and the skills/resources needed behind the resistance fighters. It's the greatest difference between "Flammen and Citronen" and other Danish films about the resistance", Ole Christian Madsen says.

Mads Mikkelsen, who still has on ash-colored make-up, supplements: "The film also is about what war does to human beings," he says.


The Germans

A single scene has burnt itself deeply into the mind of Mads Mikkelsen.

"We had to make a scene that showed how the Germans rolled in over the border on April 9. 1940, and it consequently was very violent to look at. If it happened today, it might well be that you'd say 'On with work gloves' just as he and the Lemon did," says the Danish movie star.

"And you knew it wouldn't get better as the number of Germans kept increasing, even though this time it was just walk-ons in German uniforms," adds Thure Lindhardt.

The two actors do not conceal that they respect their characters' impact on history.

"I still think you have to thank them that they sacrificed their lives at the time. If it had not been for these great resistance fighters, we would be Russians today. It's as simple as that", Mads Mikkelsen says.

Mads Mikkelsen Gets a German Beating

Ekstra Bladet followed along on the set of the resistance film "Flammen and Citronen" where Mads Mikkelsen and Thure Lindhart get their ears boxed.

"Out of the car, dammit, and down on the stomach, or we shoot!"

It's an enormous ass-kicking for the Flame and the Lemon, played by Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen, since they have chosen the wrong disguise on quite a dark day and have to go through a Schalburgkorps-barricade in order to go hunting for informers.

The Germans' helpers have just that day been ordered to arrest and intern Danish police; thus the Schalburg-boys do not know which ’gold-nugget’ they have got hold of, the Flame or the Lemon - disguised as police - who have come along in their car.

The press got permission yesterday to be along on the filming of the accident-prone day on September 19. 1944. The filming happened on the actual Ryvangs Alle, and they (Flame and Lemon) were not fingered in connection with the arrest.


Got Nausea

"We have both become very busy with the Flame and Citronen's history. For me there is no doubt that I'd also become very national if somebody came and took my country. That was what I could feel when we made the filming about April 9, where we saw the German trucks en masse roll in over the border. Ugh!, it was an ugly sight. I was really nauseous. That seemed so violent and so provoking to me," Mads Mikkelsen reports.

Thure Lindhardt's figure, the Flame (because of the hair color), doesn't suffer especially much from patriotism. Instead he is a glowing anti-fascist, and that's his motivation to fight the occupying power and drive back the Germans.

"We do not know the real Flame and the Lemon, and if we could meet them, we'd probably only reach to their suspenders; but the building up of our characters has come about as a combination of historical facts and a bit of fiction. It has been incredibly exciting," Thure Lindhardt says.

The film that is a Danish/German co-production has been filmed in the Czech Republic, Germany and Denmark. The filming is expected to be done in about a week's time.

Fund sparks German film business

High-profile movies take advantege of rebate

By ED MEZA, Posted: Fri., Aug. 3, 2007, 3:07pm PT

BERLIN -- For the Teutonic film industry, the biggest hit of the year has turned out to be the government's $80 million-a-year German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), which has bolstered a local and international production well beyond initial expectations.

The German Federal Film Board (FFA), which administers the fund, is reporting boffo effects for the nation's film industry: This year, the fund has slated $75.3 million for a total of 81 projects that will generate a total economic effect of $500 million for the local industry.

The DFFF has already granted nearly $43 million to 47 international and domestic productions, with some $33 million lined up for a further 34 projects this year.

Introduced this year to help the local industry after the government cracked down on the now-defunct private tax-shelter film funds, the DFFF grants productions that shoot in Germany a 20% refund on local spend.

Among those already receiving the rebate are such high-profile international pics as Brian Singer's WWII drama "Valkyrie," starring Tom Cruise, and the Wachowski brothers' "Speed Racer." The United Artists film, about German military hero Col. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg's attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler, is receiving $6.5 million, while Warner Bros.' live-action adaptation of Tatsuo Yoshida's cult 1960s cartoon series is getting $12.3 million -- so far the largest amount allocated any production.

Ole Christian Madsen's Danish WWII drama "Flame & Citron," starring "Casino Royale" villain Mads Mikkelsen, was the first international production allotted coin from the fund. The fact-based gangster drama about two resistance fighters shot in the Berlin and Brandenburg region and received some $460,000.

Also expected to benefit from the DFFF is Michael Hoffman's "The Last Station," an $18 million Leo Tolstoy biopic starring Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep.

FFA topper Peter Dinges is eager to attract major international production to Germany with the fund.

"We set out to improve the economic conditions of Germany's film industry and at the same time create sustainable momentum in the country for film production," says Dinges. "We achieved these goals much faster than we had hoped."

The DFFF has made Germany a much more attractive location for high-profile international production, Dinges adds. "That would surely not have been possible in Germany without the incentive of the fund."

Studio Babelsberg, located just outside Berlin, has seen its revenues skyrocket thanks in large part to DFFF-financed productions. The company is expecting revenue to reach nearly $140 million this year compared to only $22.4 million in 2006.

It's co-producing "Valkyrie," "Speed Racer" and "Flame & Citroen," with a total of 11 productions shooting in its backlot and soundstages this year.

"Thanks to the successful introduction of the DFFF and as a result of the continuing trend to produce films internationally, we are expecting very positive business growth in the next few years," says Studio Babelsberg topper Carl Woebcken.

Indeed, in addition to international productions, two local films financed through the DFFF also shot at the studio, Mike Eschmann's military comedy "Ausbilder Schmidt" and Vanessa Jopp's Christmas-themed family comedy "Meine schoene Bescherung."

Also expected to lense at Babelsberg this year is Columbia Pictures thriller "The International," directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts.

"I'm awaiting the opening night of the new film Flammen and Citronen, otherwise I'm not doing much else at the present. Until the opening night, I just relax with my family," reports Mads Mikkelsen who looks forward to meeting queen Margrethe.

"I think they are working on there being a gala opening night for the Flame and the Lemon on March 27th, but I am not completely sure. That varies a little between 26, 27. and March 28th, depending on which day the Queen can come," says Mads Mikkelsen.

[Nur Admins ist es erlaubt, dieses Bild zu sehen.]

Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik

De kongelige ser Flammen og Citronen

25 marts 2008 | Jan Bergman

Mary og Frederik som æresgæster ved galla-premieren filmen Flammen & Citronen.

Kronprinsesse Mary og kronprins Frederik er i aften inviteret til Imperial Biografen som æresgæster ved galla-premieren på Ole Christian Madsens nye film Flammen & Citronen.

Når dørene i aften lukker op for det inviterede publikum til galla-fremvisning af den nye danske film, Flammen & Citronen, bliver det med fornem deltagelse af kronprins Frederik og kronprinsesse Mary, sammen med Hofchef Per Thornit og Fru Ulla Thornit.

De kongelige får denne aften lejlighed for at mødes med holdet bag filmen – blandt andre instruktør Ole Christian Madsen, skuespillerne Mads Mikkelsen, Thure Lindhardt, Stine Stengade og Peter Mygind samt producer Lars Bredo Rahbek.

De får også mulighed for at hilse på Elisabeth Bomhoff (kvinden der husede Flammen i sin kælder – 96 år), der er ledsaget af Peter Øvig Knudsen og Gunnar Dyrberg (Holger Danske modstandsmand og ”kollega” til Flammen).

Om filmen – Flammen & Citronen:

København 1944.
Mens den danske befolkning håber på krigens snarlige afslutning, kæmper modstandsfolkene Bent Faurschou-Hviid (23), kendt som Flammen (Thure Lindhartd) og Jørgen Haagen Schmith (33), kendt som Citronen (Mads Mikkelsen), skjult med livet som indsats for Holger Danske gruppen.
Den frygtløse og kompromisløse Flammen er overbevist anti-fascist og drømmer om den dag, hvor gruppen samlet og åbent kan gå til væbnet modangreb på besættelsesmagten. Den mere følsomme familiefader, Citronen, har hidtil primært fungeret som chauffør for Flammen, men inddrages nu dybere i gruppens arbejde.


The royal looks Flame and Citron

March 25, 2008 | Jan Bergman

Mary and Frederik as guests of honor at the gala premiere of the film Flame & Citron.

Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik is tonight invited to the Imperial Cinema as guests of honor at the gala premiere of Ole Christian Madsen's new film Flame & Citron.

When the doors in the evening closes up for the invited audience at the gala presentation of the new Danish film Flame & Citron, it will be the distinguished participation of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary, along with Chief of the Court Per Thornit and Mrs. Ulla Thornit.

The royal will this evening opportunity to meet with the team behind the film - among other director Ole Christian Madsen, actors Mads Mikkelsen, Thure Lindhardt, Stine Stengade and Peter Mygind and producer Lars Bredo Rahbek.

They also get the opportunity to greet Elisabeth Bomhoff (the woman who housed the flame in his basement - 96 years), who is accompanied by Peter Øvig Knudsen and Gunnar Dyrberg (Holger Danish resistance fighter and "colleague" to flame).

About the film - Flame & Citron:
Copenhagen the 1944th
While the Danish population hopes for war impending end, fighting resistance fighters Bent Faurschou-Hviid (23), alias Flame (Thure Lindhartd) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (33), known as Citron (Mads Mikkelsen), hidden life is at stake for Holger Danish group.
The fearless and uncompromising Flame is a dedicated anti-fascist and dreams of the day when the group reassemble and openly launch an armed counterattack at the occupying power. The more sensitive family man Citron primarily works as a driver for Flame, but will now deeper in the group.

The crown prince and his wife met both the surviving resistance fighters and the actors when they participated in Tuesday evening's opening night of "Flammen and Citronen" at the Imperial-SIC movies.

96-year-old Elisabeth Bomhoffs was the first who got permission to shake the hands of the crown prince, Frederik, and crown princess, Mary.

Bornhoffs had the Flame living in her basement during the occupation.

The main characters themselves died fighting against the Germans during Anden Verdenskrig.

Kronprinspar til gallapremiere

Kronprins Frederik og kronprinsesse Mary var blandt de prominente gæster, der i aftes var til gallapremiere på filmen »Flammen og Citronen« i Imperial-biografen i København.

25. marts 2008, 22:30

Her hilser kronprinsparret på den 96-årige Elisabeth Bomhoff, der selv var frihedskæmper under besættelsen og husede filmens ene hovedperson, Flammen, i sin kælder skjult for besættelsesmagten. »Flammen og Citronen« er danmarkshistoriens dyreste dansksprogede film, og den får premiere for almindeligt dødelige på fredag.


Kronprinspar to the gala premiere

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary were among the prominent guests who last night was the gala premiere of the film 'Flame and Citron' in Imperial Cinema in Copenhagen.

25th March 2008, 22:30

Here welcomes royal couple on the 96-year-old Elisabeth Bomhoff, himself a freedom fighter during the occupation and housed the film's one main character, flame, in his basement hidden from the occupying power. "Flame and Citron" is the history of Denmark's most expensive Danish-language film, and it will premiere for ordinary mortals on Friday.

Mary & Frederik @ gala movie The Flame and the Lemon

SATURDAY, 29 MARCH 2008

Last Tuesday evening (March 25) Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary attended the gala premiere of the World War II Danish resistance movie Flammen og Citronen (The Flame and The Lemon) set in Copenhagen in 1944. The movie is based on the real story of the two resistence fighters of the title. Ninety six-year-old Elisabeth Bomhoff, who presented flowers to Mary, was a member of the Danish resistance movement during the war. She was giving refuge to 'The Flame' in his last days. It was in her house that he was hiding when the Gestapo arrived one day and surrounded the house. The Flame took a cyanide capsule before they could capture him.

Royalty sees The Flame and The Lemon

Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik were...invited to the Imperial Biografen [cinema] as guests of honour at the gala opening night of Ole Christian Madsen's new film Flammen & Citronen...The head of court (Chamberlain) for the Crown Prince and Princess Per Thornit and his wife Ulla Thornit [also attended].
The royals ...met with the director Ole Christian Madsen, the actors Mads Mikkelsen, Thure Lindhardt, Stine Stengade and Peter Mygind as well as producer Lars Bredo Rahbek.

They also had the opportunity to meet Elisabeth Bomhoff (the 96-year-old who harboured the Flame in her basement), who was accompanied by Peter Øvig Knudsen and Gunnar Dyrberg (one a member of the resistance and the other a "colleague" of the Flame).

The movie: While the Danish population hopes for the war's end, the resistance members Bent Faurschou-Hviid (23), known as the Flame (Thure Lindhartd) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (33), known as the Lemon (Mads Mikkelsen), hid at great risk as part of the Holger Danske group.

The fearless and uncompromising Flame is a committed anti-fascist and dreams about the day when the whole group can operate in the open and go on an armed counter attack on the occupying power, Germany.

The more sensitive Father and family man, The Lemon, has so far mainly acted as a driver for The Flame, but is now more deeply drawn into the group's work.

Flammen og Citronen på tysk

Fredag den 15. august 2008, 09:43 Updated: Onsdag den 19. september 2012, 09:07

Filmen om to danske modstandsfolk fra 2. verdenskrig, Flammen og Citronen, får nu premiere i Tyskland. Det glæder en tidligere modstandsmand og ven til de to.

Tyskerne kan nu få et indblik i, hvordan to danske modstandsfolk arbejdede under Tysklands besættelse af Danmark fra 1940 til 1945.

Filmen om 'Flammen og Citronen' får nemlig Tysklands-premiere den 26. august i Flensborg. Og det glæder Jørgen Kieler, der var medlem af modstandsgruppen Holger Danske sammen med 'Flammen og Citronen'.

- Al vores viden om besættelsen skal deles med Tyskland. Det er fælles historie, som vi alle sammen skal drage en konklusion af, og filmen vil måske kunne inspirere tyskerne til, at man hverken nu eller i fremtiden skal acceptere diktatur, siger Jørgen Kieler til Ritzau.

Flammen og Citronen kommer til at tale tysk i filmen, da den som de fleste andre film i Tyskland bliver synkroniseret til tysk tale.

Filmen kommer til at hedde 'Tage des Zorns' eller på dansk 'Vredens dage', og ifølge avisen Der Nordschleswiger har Slesvig-Holstens ministerpræsident, Peter Harry Carstensen, lovet at deltage ved premieren sammen med blandt andre skuespilleren Mads Mikkelsen.

Flame and Citron in German

Friday the 15th August 2008, 09:43 Updated: Wednesday, 19 September 2012, 09:07

The film about two Danish resistance fighters from the second World War II, Flame and Citron, will now premiere in Germany. I am a former resistance fighter and friend of the two.

Germans can now get an insight into how two Danish resistance fighters worked during Germany's occupation of Denmark from 1940 to 1945.

The film about 'Flame and Citron' gets namely Germany premiere on 26 August in Flensburg. And I am Jorgen Kieler, who was a member of the resistance group Holger Danish with 'Flame and Citron'.

- All our knowledge about the occupation to be shared with Germany. It is common history that we all have to draw a conclusion, and the film might inspire Germans to that, either now or in the future must accept dictatorship, says Jorgen Kieler Ritzau.

Flame and Citron come to speak German in the movie, because it, like most other movies in Germany are dubbed into German speech.

The film will be called 'Take des Zorn' or the Danish 'Wrath days', and according to the newspaper Der Nordschleswiger has Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen, promised to attend the premiere along with, among others, actor Mads Mikkelsen.

Match Factory strikes 'Flame' deals

Danish pic is biggest domestic hit of 2008

Posted: Fri., Aug. 8, 2008, 10:07am PT, By GUNNAR REHLIN

Helmer Ole Christian Madsen’s hit movie “Flame & Citron” has sold to 17 countries.

Pic, which depicts the resistance movement in Denmark during WWII and stars Mads Mikkelsen (“Casino Royale”), opened domestically in February and has pulled in close to 700,000 admissions, making it the biggest local hit of 2008.

Pic has sold to Rialto in Australia and New Zealand, Einhorn in Austria, C.N.C in Benelux, Jingle Media in China, Sandrew Metronome in Norway, Finland and Sweden, Swift in France, NFP in Germany, Ama in Greece, Alcine Terran in Japan, Prisvideo in Portugal, Alta in Spain and Metrodome in the U.K.

Negotiations are also underway in Switzerland, Canada and the U.S.

Pic was produced by Lars Brado Rahbek for Nimbus Films. Sales were handled by The Match Factory.

iW NEWS | IFC Films Conquers "Flame & Citron" for the U.S.

BY INDIEWIRE, AUGUST 28, 2008 11:05 AM

US rights to Ole Christian Madsen's Danish drama "Flame & Citron" have been acquired by IFC Films, the company announced Thursday afternoon. The film, which will have its world premiere this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival followed by a screening at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, stars Mads Mikkelsen ("After the Wedding") and Thure Lindhardt ("Into the Wild"). The film will be released in 2009 theatrically through IFC Films and on VOD through its day and date distribution platform. Arianna Bocco, Vice President of Production and Acquisitions for IFC Films negotiated the deal with Michael Weber from The Match Factory. Filmed in Germany, Copenhagen and Prague, the film is based on actual events and eye-witness accounts of two of the most active resistance fighters in the Holger Danske resistance group during World War II, Bent Faurschou-Hviid (known as Flame) and Jorgen Haagen Schmith (known as Citron). "This is truly dazzling filmmaking that delivers enough twists and turns to keep even the sharpest viewer on the edge of their seats," commented Jonathan Sehring, President of IFC Entertainment in a statement. "We're looking forward to bringing this film to an American audience." [Brian Brooks]