4 real historical locations · Norway
A Norwegian film depicting the Battle of Narvik in April-May 1940, where Norwegian and Allied forces briefly recaptured the port from German forces — Hitler's first military setback. Told through the story of a Norwegian woman and her German-soldier husband on opposite sides.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Norway.
April–June 1940 — the Battle of Narvik. Germany seizes the iron ore port; Allied forces counterattack and briefly retake the city before withdrawing.
Narvik was the first land defeat Germany suffered in WWII. Allied forces retook the city on May 28, 1940 — but were forced to evacuate two weeks later when Dunkirk made Norway a sideshow. The battle cost Germany 10 de...
View location →The iron-ore port at Narvik is the strategic prize that draws both Germany and the Allies into the first major land campaign in the west. Norwegian soldier G...
Germany seized Narvik on 9 April 1940. Allied forces recaptured it on 28 May — briefly the only territory liberated from Germany — before being forced to withdraw as France collapsed.
View location →Trapped German mountain troops fall back toward the Swedish frontier at Bjørnfjell, the first German land forces in the war to face imminent annihilation bef...
By late May 1940 the German garrison at Narvik was down to 4,600 men with no ammunition resupply. General Dietl was preparing to intern his forces in Sweden when the Allied evacuation changed everything.
View location →British, French, and Polish forces stage from Harstad for the Narvik counteroffensive. The Allied recapture of the port is overshadowed by the simultaneous c...
The Allied evacuation of Norway was completed by 8 June 1940. Norwegian forces fought on from Britain. King Haakon VII escaped to London where he led the Norwegian government in exile.
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