A huge hit in Norway, this war movie is coming to Netflix as a mini-series!

A huge hit in Norway, this war movie is coming to Netflix as a mini-series!

After Nothing New in the West, which won the Oscar for the best foreign language film, Netflix is ​​going to strike while the iron is hot, offering a new European production that explores the horrors of war!

It is to the Norwegian side that the platform proposes to go this time, with the mini-series The Scum of War, a drama in three episodes describing the battle of Narvik, which marked the first victory of the Allies over the Nazis. In the spring of 1940. Particularly bloody clashes resulted in several hundred deaths and even more injuries.

The director who inspired Christopher Nolan

More than seventy years after the events, Erik Skjoldbjerg’s film Narvik (from which we have the original film Insomnia, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s remake) revisited this battle.

Available from us on Netflix, this feature film was the biggest hit at the Norwegian box office in 2022 (over 400,000 admissions for a population of 5.5 million).

In order to give the work more visibility, but also due to the presence of many deleted scenes, Narvik will be the subject of a new release this Sunday, April 2, in the form of a three-episode mini-series, a certified filmmaker and accompanied by a brand new French title: L’Écume de la guerre.

The war film Narvik and its miniseries adaptation The Scum of War are now available exclusively on Netflix

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Source: Allocine

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