The person Max Manus
Max Manus was born in 1914 in Bergen and died in 1996.
After volunteering in the Soviet-Finnish Winter War 1939-1940, Max Manus returned to Norway on the day of the German invasion of Norway on the 9th of April, 1940. He was one of the pioneers in the Norwegian resistance movement. After barely escaping the German Gestapo in his apartment in Oslo, he was forced on a dangerous journey all over the world, which ended in England in 1943. He was then required to learn parachuting and was dropped in the forests near Oslo with a sabotage team. In Norway he resumed his organisational work and made various sabotage attempts on ships in the Oslo fjord with home-made limpet mines and even ‘swimmer-assisted torpedoes’.
Many of his comrades in arms were killed, captured, and tortured, but Manus managed to survive because of his determination not to be captured and some very lucky escapes. He was famous for being one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and for being the lifeguard of the crown prince of Norway on his triumphal parade in Oslo after the end of the war.
The movie Max Manus
In 2008, an historical and biographical movie portraying the life of Max Manus was produced with the actor Axel Henie in the leading role as Max Manus. The movie has already proven to be a great success and in Norway the Norwegian King attended the premier.
