Blodveien
Blodveien may refer to: * Blodveien (film) (The Blood Road), a Norwegian-Yugoslav film from 1955 *Blood Road The Blood Road ( no, Blodveien) is a route northeast of Rognan in the municipality of Saltdal in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway that was built by prisoners during the German occupation of Norway, Second World War. The route was a ...

Blodveien (film)
''Blodveien'' (The Blood Road; sh, Krvavi put) is a Norwegian- Yugoslav drama film from 1955 directed by Kåre Bergstrøm and Radoš Novaković. The script was written by Sigurd Evensmo. The film premiered in Norway on February 17, 1955. Plot ''Blodveien'' portrays the conditions that Yugoslav (mostly Serbian) slave laborers and prisoners of war lived under in Northern Norway in 1942 during the Second World War, when the Germans wanted to build the route known as the "Blood Road" (today part of European route E6 among other routes). Two local Norwegian friends and construction workers, Ketil and Ivar, serve as construction supervisors on the road under pressure from the Germans. They had earlier helped build the small concentration camp that prisoners later lived in, without understanding what they were involved in. The prisoners are sympathetic toward them because they try to help them to the extent that they can. The Germans take harsh revenge after an escape attempt by shooti ...
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