Hamsun — Norway
The 1996 film depicts the final years of Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun — his controversial support for Nazi Germany and the Norwegian collaborationist regime, and his post-war trial for treason.
Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), Norway's most celebrated author, publicly supported the German occupation of Norway and met Hitler in 1943. He praised the SS in a newspaper obituary for Reinhard Heydrich. After the war he was tried for treason at age 85 — his age and state of mind led to a civil settlement rather than criminal conviction. His collaboration remains deeply controversial in Norway.