Gränsen (Richard Holm, 2011)

Sweden timidly sat out WWII while its neighbours on all sides were under attack by totalitarian superpowers, so a war film factually based on the country's involvement would not be conducive to bloody thrills. Therefore The Border cooks up the hypothesis that one squad did fight Germans across the Norwegian border and thereby also prevented an invasion. This premise is as half-baked as its chronology, with a Finnish Winter War veteran turning up to aid them in a randomly picked 1942, but it is interesting to note evidence of a lingering sense of national guilt at having been so passive on the part of the filmmakers, with the Swedish characters flapping ineffectually and effectively causing all the trouble while the sole Finnish and Norwegian characters take charge and get scant reward for having done so.

4/10