Quisling: The Final Days

As a result of the legal purge, Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death for his collaboration with Nazi Germany during their occupation of Norway. He is held in Akershus Prison as he awaits execution.

• Gard B. Eidsvold [no] as Vidkun Quisling, former head of a pro-Nazi puppet government who is put on trial for treason
• Anders Danielsen Lie as Peder Olsen, a hospital chaplain tasked with providing pastoral care for Quisling
• Lisa Carlehed [sv] as Maria Quisling, Vidkun Quisling's Ukrainian-born wife
• Lisa Loven Kongsli as Heidi Olsen, Peder's wife
• Nils Jørgen Kaalstad as Dagfinn Hauge, a priest at Akershus Prison
• Arthur Hakalahti [de] as Arvid, one of Quisling's jailers
• Stein Torleif Bjella as Vilhelm Ullman, a childhood friend of Quisling called to testify on his behalf
• Øyvind Brandtzæg [no] as Henrik Bergh, Vidkun Quisling's defense lawyer
• Lasse Kolsrud as Eivind Berggrav, Primate of the Church of Norway
• Vidar Sandem as Erik Solem, the judge presiding over the trial
• Hans Rønningen [no] as Annæus Schjødt, the prosecutor in the trial
• Benjamin Lønne Røsler as Leo Eitinger, a Czech-Norwegian psychiatrist and an Auschwitz survivor called to testify against Quisling
• Anderz Eide [no] as Helge Lindboe Nordtømme, the police inspector leading the investigation of the mass graves at Trandumskogen
• Brede Fristad as Per Røed [no], one of Quisling's bodyguards during the trial
• Per Gørvell [no] as Georg Monrad Krohn, head of the Department of Neurology at Rikshospitalet
• Hauk Heyerdahl [no] as Rolf Jørgen Fuglesang, former Minister of Culture in Quisling's regime
• Per Vermeli as Johan Andreas Lippestad, former Minister of Social Affairs in Quisling's regime who vainly tries to negotiate an honorable surrender for his peers

The film was announced in 2021.^[1][2] That year, the film received 18 million kroner ($1.7 million) in production subsidies from the Norwegian Film Institute.^[3] Gard B. Eidsvold and Anders Danielsen Lie joined the cast in September 2022.^[4] The actors spent 10 weeks in rehearsals for the film.^[5]

Promotional stills from the film were released in December 2023.^[6] The film premiered at the Norwegian International Film Festival on 18 August 2024. It had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2024.^[7]

Alissa Simon of Variety called the film a "superb historical drama about the far-right's threat to democracy" and "perhaps the strongest work yet from veteran Norwegian helmer Erik Poppe".^[8]

• Quisling, a Scandinavian colloquialism for a traitor or collaborator, named after Vidkun Quisling