The Good Traitor Explained

The Good Traitor
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Director:	Christina Rosendahl
Starring:	Ulrich Thomsen
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Runtime:	115 minutes
Country:	Denmark
Language:	Danish English
Gross:	$11,274^[1]

The Good Traitor (Danish: Vores mand i Amerika) is a 2020 Danish drama film about Henrik Kauffmann and the signing of the Greenland treaty with the United States after the Nazi occupation of Denmark during World War II.

Cast

• Ulrich Thomsen as Henrik Kauffmann
• Denise Gough as Charlotte Kauffmann
• Mikkel Boe Følsgaard as Povl Bang-Jensen
• Zoë Tapper as Zilla Sears
• Burn Gorman as Berle
• Henry Goodman as Franklin D. Roosevelt
• as
• Ross McCall as Mason Sears
• Pixie Davies as Poppin Sears
• Amber Fernée as Tilda Kauffmann
• Rosemary Aburrow as Lisa Kauffmann
• Søren Sætter-Lassen as
• Nicholas Blane as Winston Churchill
• as Lauring
• Henrik Noël Olesen as Arno
• as Statsminister Buhl
• Scott Alexander Young as General Hobbs
• Robert Jackson as Ejendomsmágler

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Good Traitor holds an approval rating of based on reviews. The New York Times complimented, The Good Traitor "shows how the energies of public and private worlds course back and forth".^[2] Variety was less complimentary, "Fascinating backroom politics circa WWII are undermined by banal marital melodrama in Danish director Christina Rosendahl's The Good Traitor, resulting in a so-so period drama that raises more questions than it answers."^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vores mand i Amerika (2020). The Numbers. 28 August 2021.
2. News: 'The Good Traitor' Review: The Defiant Diplomat. Nicolas Rapold. New York Times. 25 March 2021. 22 August 2021.
3. Web site: 'The Good Traitor' Review: Wartime Intrigue Spices Up Otherwise Dull Marital Drama. Alissa Simon. 9 March 2021. Variety. 22 August 2021.