| Director | Petter Næss |
|---|---|
| Box office | $712,216 |
On 27 April 1940, a Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 and a Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Skua engage each other but crash near Grotli, Norway. Pilot Leutnant Horst Schopis (Florian Lukas), Feldwebel Wolfgang Strunk (Stig Henrik Hoff), and Obergefreiter Josef Schwartz (David Kross) survive the He 111's crash-landing and attempt to reach German lines, but lose their supplies and are stranded in a hunter's cabin during a snowstorm. While there, they hear Captain Charles P. Davenport (Lachlan Nieboer) and his air gunner Robert Smith (Rupert Grint), the British aviators aboard the Skua, approaching the cabin. Horst allows them into the cabin as prisoners of war, divides the room roughly in half between them, and shares their only food, a morsel of oatmeal, with the British. They use wooden furniture in the cabin as firewood, and Horst takes Davenport's lighter, a gift from his father, to light it, promising to return it afterward.
After an attempt to find help the next day, Smith steals Josef's gun and orders Horst and Strunk to disarm themselves. While Smith and Strunk attempt to hunt for food, Davenport orders Horst to chop down what turns out to be the main support beam in the middle of the cabin, causing the roof to cave in before Horst and Davenport hold up the roof atop tables. When Smith and Strunk return with just a rabbit, Horst takes Davenport's gun and a standoff occurs before the Germans and British decide they must work together to survive and put their weapons in a box. After agreeing to cooperate, the Germans and British gradually befriend each other, improved when Strunk uncovers a stash of dried meat and alcohol under a floorboard, which they share. Josef's arm, which was injured in the crash, becomes infected with gangrene, and the men give him alcohol before amputating his arm with an axe.
The next day, Smith and Strunk set out on skis to determine where to travel. Meanwhile, a Norwegian Army scout locates the He 111, and a Norwegian Army unit is dispatched to search the area for the downed aviators. When they spot Smith and Strunk skiing to the cabin, a Norwegian sniper shoots and kills Strunk, while Norwegian soldiers capture Smith, Davenport, Horst, and Josef. At a Norwegian military base, Smith and Davenport are interrogated and accused of being collaborators, worsened when Horst returns Davenport's lighter in front of the Norwegians. When a Norwegian officer threatens to report Smith and Davenport to their superiors, Davenport snaps, insults the officer, and explains they were simply trying to survive. Smith and Davenport are released, while Horst and Josef are taken away in a canoe pending transport to a prisoner-of-war camp, and Davenport and Horst exchange a glance.
Epilogue intertitles state that Horst and Schwartz became prisoners of war in Canada, while Smith and Davenport returned to combat action but were shot down in their very next flight, killing Smith. In 1977, Horst receives a call at his home in Munich from Davenport, who also survived the war and invites him to London.