Battle of Oslo

Blücher (2025) is a Norwegian war film directed by Daniel Fahre — stream online on iFILM. The story unfolds on the night of 8–9 April 1940, as a German fleet pushes toward Oslo and runs into Oscarsborg Fortress, manned by Colonel Birger Eriksen: a 64-year-old officer with outdated guns and no orders from above.

Eriksen, played by Bjørn Sundquist, makes the call to fire on the German heavy cruiser Blücher — packed with invasion troops — using his aging artillery. The ship sinks. That delay gave the Norwegian royal family and government time to evacuate Oslo before German forces arrived. Fahre keeps the film tightly wound around that single night, and it turns out that's all the story needs. Stream Blücher (2025) on iFILM.