Into the White

Into the White
  • Release date: 12 Apr 2013
  • Release year: 2012
  • Runtime: 104 minutes
  • Country: Norway, Sweden, France
  • Keywords: cold weather, snowy wilderness, snowstorm, warplane, one engine airplane, reference to the wizard of oz, debriefing, zippo lighter, subsistence hunting, inspired by a true story
Plot:
In World War II, the German pilots Lieutenant Horst Schopis, Josef Schwartz and Wolfgang Strunk crash their airplane in the wilderness of Norway after shooting down a British airplane. They walk through a snow storm until they reach shelter in an abandoned hunter cabin. Soon the British pilot Captain Charles P. Davenport and the gunner Robert Smith arrive in the cabin and they become prisoners of the German pilots. However, after the initial friction between the enemies, they realize that they should team-up to survive in the wilderness in the beginning of an improbable friendship.
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