The Good Traitor (Danish: Vores mand i Amerika, "Our Man in America") is a 2020 Danish drama film about Henrik Kauffmann and the signing of the Greenland treaty with the United States after the Nazi occupation of Denmark during World War II.
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Cast
Ulrich Thomsen as Henrik Kauffmann
Denise Gough as Charlotte Kauffmann
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard as Povl Bang-Jensen
Zoë Tapper as Zilla Sears
Burn Gorman as Berle
Henry Goodman as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Esben Dalgaard Andersen as Einar Blechingberg
Ross McCall as Mason Sears
Pixie Davies as Poppin Sears
Amber Fernée as Tilda Kauffmann
Rosemary Aburrow as Lisa Kauffmann
Søren Sætter-Lassen as Nils Svenningsen
Nicholas Blane as Winston Churchill
Miri-Ann Beuschel as Lauring
Henrik Noël Olesen as Arno
Hans Henrik Clemensen as Statsminister Buhl
Scott Alexander Young as General Hobbs
Robert Jackson as Real Estate Agent
Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Good Traitor holds an approval rating of 44% based on 16 reviews. The New York Times complimented, The Good Traitor "shows how the energies of public and private worlds course back and forth". Variety was less complimentary, "Fascinating backroom politics circa WWII are undermined by banal marital melodrama in Danish director Christina Rosendahl's The Good Traitor, resulting in a so-so period drama that raises more questions than it answers."