Before It Ends

Når befrielsen kommer (Before It Ends, 2023) is a Danish war drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Anders Walter, with Pilu Asbaek and Ulrich Thomsen in the lead roles. Runtime is 100 minutes.

It is the closing weeks of the occupation. Germany is collapsing and Denmark is days from freedom — but a folk high school run by resistance members Jakob and Lis is requisitioned as a holding camp for German refugees fleeing the ruins of the Reich. To help them means going against everything the couple stood for. To turn away means something else entirely. Their children are watching.

The film offers no comfortable exits and earns its tagline, "Humanity is a choice," without spelling it out. Stream Når befrielsen kommer online on iFILM.