Ole Christian Madsen's Flame and Citron is a film I've been anxiously awaiting ever since the director first mentioned it to me at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Following the stylish devastation of his drug film Nordkraft and the much more intimate but every bit as devastating Prag -- the film that should have received Denmark's nomination for the Best Foreign Film Oscar -- Madsen is broadening the scope somewhat with the story of Flame and Citron.

Based on actual events the film is the story of a pair of legendary resistance fighters during the occupation of Denmark by the Nazis during WWII. Here's the synopsis from the DFI website:

Copenhagen, 1944. Denmark is occupied by Nazi Germany. Flame and Citron are two legendary resistance fighters charged with liquidating Danish informers. By order of their commander, they now consent to kill Germans as well. But when Flame is asked to execute his girlfriend Ketty, an enigmatic Stockholm courier, he questions his orders wondering who Ketty really is ? In the struggle for freedom all zones appear grey and it becomes increasingly unclear who is friend and who is foe. Based on true events.

Madsen is enormously talented behind the camera and that first still looks very impressive. Expect great things from this one.