The Good Traitor

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The Good Traitor
Vores mand i amerika.jpg
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Danish Vores mand i Amerika
Directed by Christina Rosendahl
Written byKristian Bang Foss
Dunja Gry Jensen
Christina Rosendahl
Starring Ulrich Thomsen
Release date
  • 13 August 2020 (2020-08-13)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryDenmark
LanguagesDanish
English
Box office$11,274 [1]

The Good Traitor (Danish : Vores mand i Amerika) is a 2020 Danish drama film about Henrik Kauffmann and the signing of the Greenland treaty with the United States after the Nazi occupation of Denmark during World War II.

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Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Good Traitor holds an approval rating of 44% based on 16 reviews. [2] The New York Times complimented, The Good Traitor "shows how the energies of public and private worlds course back and forth". [3] Variety was less complimentary, "Fascinating backroom politics circa WWII are undermined by banal marital melodrama in Danish director Christina Rosendahl's The Good Traitor, resulting in a so-so period drama that raises more questions than it answers." [4]

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References

  1. "Vores mand i Amerika (2020)". The Numbers. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  2. "The Good Traitor (2020)", Rotten Tomatoes , Fandango , retrieved 30 October 2021
  3. Nicolas Rapold (25 March 2021). "'The Good Traitor' Review: The Defiant Diplomat". New York Times . Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  4. Alissa Simon (9 March 2021). "'The Good Traitor' Review: Wartime Intrigue Spices Up Otherwise Dull Marital Drama". Variety . Retrieved 22 August 2021.