IFC get close to the ‘Flame’

There is a reason why we call them Great Danes.

Filmmaker Ole Christian Madsen’s Flame & Citron is becoming the big Dane film that could. Currently set up with deals in over 18 territories, it took a couple of months and perhaps a need to show proof of purchases for The Match Factory to find a taker for the U.S market. IFC Films are planning a 09′ release.

Reuniting Mads Mikkelsen and Stine Stengade, who were paired in Madsen’s previous work Prague, the World War II pic also stars Thure Lindhardt as one of the two Danish resistance fighters who hunt down collaborators in German-occupied Copenhagen.

More than a decade ago I had the chance to take a tour of The Resistance Museum – a museum dedicated to the effort involved in fighting off those pesky Germans. The display cases demonstrate the many ingenious ways that they sabotaged the enemies’ plans on more than one occasion. 

The picture will have its North American premiere in the heights of Telluride with a stop over at the Toronto film fest.