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So, the camerawork, the lighting, the scene blocking, set dressing, sound and music in this film are all good. Sometimes even more than good. Far better than you'd expect in fact.

The rest? The rest is garbage. The character's motivations are confusing, it's difficult to tell the characters apart because they all look the same, the editing is confusing and makes the film seem like a cut up rather than a coherent narrative and Pooh looks like a halloween costume rather than a man-bear.

I think the producer thought all he needed was amusic source material to make fun of, but then forgot to have fun and wrote a generic Hills Have Eyes-rip off instead.

Like much of the Fascist regime's propaganda during the occupation of Norway this film is quite amateurish. The story itself is a bland but representative presentation of Nasjonal Samling's self perception and ideology. However, the acting, the editing, lighting and scenography is stilted, rushed, flat and often involuntaril funny.

The film has many of the party slogans presented as lines from the younger characters, and mythologizes Quisling as a true visionary on so many levels.

The film failed completely at the box office, and was the only nazi propaganda film with wide distribution during the occupation. It was ridiculed by the audience, and withdrawn to only be circulated within the party - like the very few other propaganda films made during the war.

As a film it is also quite boring, with chaotic dramaturgy and a disjointed storyline. It is however an interesting film for historians of the occupation.