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Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.

Events

• April 9th , 1940, Max Manus returns to Norway to fight

• April 27th , 1943,

• January 16th , 1945, Max Manus sinks the SS Donau

Directed by Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg

Starring Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ken Duken