The Norwegian Holocaust movie Betrayed (Den største forbrytelsen) will be distributed by Nordisk Film.

The film is based on Marte Michelet’s book The Ultimate Crime, adapted for the silver screen by the award-winner scriptwriter Harald Rosenløw Eeg (The Wave, The King’s Choice).

Marius Holst (King of Devil’s Island) directs for producers Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm of Fantefilm (The Wave, Ragnarok). The film focuses on one of the most dramatic chapters in Norwegian history that few Norwegians knew or wanted to acknowledge. 
On November 26, 1942, hundreds of Norwegian Jews were picked up by the Norwegian police and led aboard the cargo ship DS Donau, en route to Auschwitz. Among them was the Braude family. 

Marius Holst said: "This is a story that has never been touched in Norwegian film before, although it’s about one of the most dramatic chapters in Norwegian history. Betrayed is an exceptionally strong story with a great film potential.”

Writer/journalist Marte Michelet who received the Brage Prize in 2014 for her novel said: “It's absolutely great that The Ultimate Crime is now becoming a movie. A feature film can tell the story of the Holocaust in Norway in a way that can reach out to many more people than a book. I think a film is very important to bring the story of what happened to the Jews in Norway to the Norwegians' collective consciousness. It is more than time for such a movie to be made.”

The film that just received support from the Norwegian Film Institute, will go into production in the fall 2018 and will be delivered a year later.