There have been so many films made about World War II that it takes something special to make an example like this one stand out.
In this case, the cooperation in the filming between the Norwegian actors and crew and the actors and crew from socialist Yugoslavia mirrors the theme, which the resulting production makes quite moving, of friendship between local resisters under the German occupation and Serbian prisoners brought into a strange new place.
The two user reviews mention most of the story being set indoors, but that was not the film I saw, which makes vivid use of the northern landscape in the glorious tradition of Scandinavian cinema in general, going back to the 1910s, especially in the magnificent scenes of the young prisoner Janko struggling to make his escape through rocks and rapids and fog and night.
There was also, I would argue with one of these reviewers, nothing routine about Blood Road.
It is a film that deserves to be more well known, and more talked about.
In this case, the cooperation in the filming between the Norwegian actors and crew and the actors and crew from socialist Yugoslavia mirrors the theme, which the resulting production makes quite moving, of friendship between local resisters under the German occupation and Serbian prisoners brought into a strange new place.
The two user reviews mention most of the story being set indoors, but that was not the film I saw, which makes vivid use of the northern landscape in the glorious tradition of Scandinavian cinema in general, going back to the 1910s, especially in the magnificent scenes of the young prisoner Janko struggling to make his escape through rocks and rapids and fog and night.
There was also, I would argue with one of these reviewers, nothing routine about Blood Road.
It is a film that deserves to be more well known, and more talked about.