History Film / NineLives1957

* RatedMForManly: Obviously.

''Nine Lives'' is a Norwegian feature film made in 1957, made by director Arne Skouen. The film is BasedOnATrueStory, and tells the story of war hero ''Jan Baalsrud'', who made it out of Norway alive after a failed attempt to smuggle weapons to the Norwegian resistance movement during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Their primary goal was to blow up the airport at Bardufoss in the county of Troms. All of his crew members were shot, and Baalsrud himself escaped, severely wounded, and developed gangrene in his feet, as well as snow blindness. Nevertheless, he was helped over the border to Swedish Lapland, where he rejoined the resistance fight. The movie tells the story of this hazardous escape. It is considered one of the most epic movies ever made in Norway.

* TheDanza: Hansen the Cobbler, played by actor Sverre Hansen. Not intentional, considering that the surname Hansen is the most common surname in Norway.

* BadassGrandpa: The father of the farmer Martin who helps Baalsrud up to the mountains. He is GenreSavvy enough to know what his son is up to, and bails him out behind his back.

* MoodWhiplash: From downer to joy, when it turns out Baalsrud actually survived the blizzard, and responds after Martin has uncovered him. The scene also doubles as one of the [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funniest moments]] in the entire movie, with Baalsrud just lying flat on his back, almost covered in snow. Martin states:

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The score, written by composer Gunnar Sønstevold.

* GoMadFromIsolation: Baalsrud after four weeks alone in the wilderness cracks for a time, and is almost DrivenToSuicice.

''Nine Lives'' is a Norwegian feature film made in 1957, made by director Arne Skouen. The film is BasedOnATrueStory, and tells the story of war hero ''Jan Baalsrud'', who made it out of Norway alive after a failed attempt to smuggle weapons to the Norwegian resistance movement during WorldWarII. Their primary goal was to blow up the airport at Bardufoss in the county of Troms. All of his crew members were shot, and Baalsrud himself escaped, severely wounded, and developed gangrene in his feet, as well as snow blindness. Nevertheless, he was helped over the border to Swedish Lapland, where he rejoined the resistance fight. The movie tells the story of this hazardous escape. It is considered one of the most epic movies ever made in Norway.

* BasedOnATrueStory: Jan Baalsrud wrote a book of his experience, which Arne Skouen used for good measure, as well as advice from Baalsrud himself.
** The beginning of the movie lampshades it by stating that Baalsrud got a lot of help, but the people who helped him were so many that the movie was unable to record them all. Therefore, a couple like Agnes and Martin are composite characters.

* CoolOldGuy: Martin`s father, who knows his son better than Martin expected. Martin helps Baalsrud, and explains to his father that he is making booze. His father covers for him by making the booze himself, because people actually asked for it.

* WorldWarII: The whole thing happens during the difficult winter of 1943.

'''Nine Lives''' is a Norwegian feature film made in 1957, made by director Arne Skouen. The film is BasedOnATrueStory, and tells the story of war hero ''Jan Baalsrud'', who made it out of Norway alive after a failed attempt to smuggle weapons to the Norwegian resistance movement during WorldWarII. Their primary goal was to blow up the airport at Bardufoss in the county of Troms. All of his crew members were shot, and Baalsrud himself escaped, severely wounded, and developed gangrene in his feet, as well as snow blindness. Nevertheless, he was helped over the border to Swedish Lapland, where he rejoined the resistance fight. The movie tells the story of this hazardous escape. It is considered one of the most epic movies ever made in Norway.

!!! The movie contains examples of these tropes:

* {{Badass}}: Jan Baalsrud himself. Also his actor, Jack Fjeldstad, who did most of his own stunts. Swimming through icy waters was probably the most badass moment of all.
** The badass factor also covers the men who carry him, on a stretcher, up into the mountains of Troms, with one of them breaking three ribs on the way.
** Agnes, who decided to help her husband, knowing full well that Baalsrud might be dead. She almost collapses in a blizzard.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The scene where Baalsrud is forced to cut off his own toes with a knife. Not one single wound is shown - we only see the time lapse, and his hand gripping hard on the bedside. When it is all over, Baalsrud collapses in bed, cued by a shrill fanfare from the score. {{Badass}} indeed.

* LostForWords: The woman who was supposed to wrote down Baalsrud`s story for the record, is seen with her sheet completely blank at the end of the movie. She has not been able to write down anything.

* WholePlotReference: TheEighties action movie ''Orion`s Belt'' made a point of copying most of the plot in a ColdWar setting (making the hero stumble his way through the desolation of ''Svalbard''). When ''that'' movie was spoofed by the Norwegian KLM trio, this even got lampshaded:

* AllThereInTheManual: The BookOfTheFilm, of course. The fact that the actual goal for the operation is Bardufoss airport, is never stated in the film.

'''Nine Lives''' is a Norwegian feature film made in 1957, made by director Arne Skouen. The film is BasedOnATrueStory, and tells the story of war hero ''Jan Baalsrud'', who made it out of Norway alive after a failed attempt to smuggle weapons to the Norwegian resistance movement during WorldWarII. All of his crew members were shot, and Baalsrud himself escaped, severely wounded, and developed gangrene in his feet, as well as snow blindness. Nevertheless, he was helped over the border to Swedish Lapland, where he rejoined the resistance fight. The movie tells the story of this hazardous escape. It is considered one of the most epic movies ever made in Norway.