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“By approaching true events, with famous historical figures whose lives we know something about, and at the same time taking the greatest liberties,” Atlantic Crossing “creates a deeply false impression of history, Lorentzen writes in an Aftenposten article.
The television series is about the close relationship between Crown Princess Märtha and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. Lately the debate about fiction versus historical facts has been unleashed.
Various historians have pointed out a number of factual errors and have believed that the series takes too much liberty in its depiction of historical events.
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Lorentzen was an opponent during the war and in Kompani Linge. He was a bodyguard for the royal family when they returned to Oslo in June 1945. This is how he met his future wife, Princess Ragnhild, who is King Harald’s older sister.
Lorentzen believes that the television series has many tendentious representations, which he characterizes as “downright grotesque.”
– The royal family does not have the opportunity to express their opinions. When I choose to speak, it is because I was close to some of those whose lives here have been used for commercial purposes, Lorentzen continues.
– Such speculative exploitation of defenseless people for entertainment purposes is shameful, he writes.
The efforts of the royal family inspired
Series creator Alexander Eik says Crown Princess Märtha and the royal family’s wartime efforts were an inspiration in the work of the television series.
Series creator and director Alexander Eik is the man behind “Atlantic Crossing.” He emphasizes to NTB that the television series is a fictional series. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB
– To the extent that we have had an agenda, it has only been to show what they meant for the nation of Norway, write in an SMS to NTB.
He emphasizes that the television series does not pretend to tell the truth about everything that happened with those involved.
– “Atlantic Crossing” is a fiction series that, like other historical dramas, must condense, simplify, omit, and no less poems. Especially around the characters’ feelings and personal relationships, Eik writes.
