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| Strictly Confidential |
| Original title |
Strengt hemmelig |
| Alternate title |
The Assassination of Karl Marthinsen |
| Type |
Documentaries |
| Director |
Benedicte M. Orvung |
| Short summary |
At the age of 30, director Benedicte Orvung discovers that her family is hiding a dark secret. The discovery leads her to a shocking story: Her grandfather’s brother, Karl Marthinsen, was one of the most prominent Nazi collaborators and a Nazi Police leader during WWII.
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| Summary |
At the age of 30, director Benedicte Orvung discovers that her family is hiding a dark secret.
The discovery leads her to a shocking story: Her grandfather’s brother, Karl Marthinsen, was one of the most prominent Nazi collaborators and a Nazi Police leader during WWII.
Karl Marthinsen was born and grew up in the little fishing village Mehamn in northern Norway. His military and national socialistic career builds up during the prewar years, and when Germany occupies Norway in April 1940, he co-operates with the Nazis.
In the last year of WWII, he becomes the most important partner of the Nazi occupants in Norway. Karl Marthinsen and his actions stand for themselves - and eventually form a clear picture of a fanatical National Socialist. Ambitious and effective. It made him extremely dangerous for the resistance.
Near the end of WWII the Norwegian exile government in London puts KM at the top of the list of people the resistance should try to assassinate. The resistance succeeds, but the assassination ends with terrible consequences in the form of retaliations.
After the war ended this story has been unknown to most. But the family has lived with the shame. The resistance had to live with the decision they made. Not least, those who survived Karl Marthinsen’s cruelty have never forgotten. |
| Screenplay |
Benedicte M. Orvung |
| D.O.P |
Kjell Vassdal, Tom Andre Edvindsen |
| Editor |
Tom Andre Edvindsen |
| Composer |
Frode Ytre Arne, Svein Ragnar Myklebust |
| Producer |
Benedicte Maria Orvung, Tom Andre Edvindsen |
| Production company |
Orvung Film |
| Country of origin |
Norway |
| Release date (national) |
2010-02 |
| Technical information |
| Format |
35mm |
| Screen ratio |
1:1,85 |
| Colour |
Colour - B/W |
| Sound System |
Dolby SR |
| Length in min's |
105 |
| No. of reels |
5 |
| Distributor (Norway only) |
Coriander Film |
| Festival participation |
2010 The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival Volda
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| URL |
http://www.strengthemmelig.no |
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Director biography:
 Benedicte Maria Orvung was born September 2, 1965, in northern Norway close to the North Cape. She grew up in Paris, France, moved back to Norway in 1975. Since her childhood she has expressed a great interest in both the theatre and the moving pictures. After working as a still photographer for many years, she was educated in film at Oslo Film & TV Akademi (Norway) 1992 – 1994. She graduated from the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm in 1998. Her films have received both national and international awards.
Filmography (short and documentary films):
2010: Strictly Confidential
2004: Toy Joy | Liten
2003: Disa Moves to Japan
2001: Little Big Woman
1998: Calling Killerwhales
1995: Så såre lite | Gita & Gopi
1994: På lånt tid | Men i himmelen får jeg vinger | Pussig
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