Flame & Citron — Denmark
Two Danish Resistance assassins — Flammen and Citronen — systematically kill Danish collaborators and Gestapo informers in occupied Copenhagen, while doubting whether their targets are always the right ones.
Bent Faurschou-Hviid ('Flammen', 1921-1944) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ('Citronen', 1910-1945) were real members of the Holger Danske resistance group. They conducted dozens of liquidations in Copenhagen between 1943 and 1944. Flammen was killed in a gunfight with the Gestapo in October 1944, aged 22. The film explores the moral ambiguity of targeted killing in an occupation.