Narvik (Norwegian: Kampen om Narvik lit. ’The Battle for Narvik’) is a Norwegian historical film depicting the Battles of Narvik from 9 April to 8 June 1940. Directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg and made by Nordisk Film, it stars Kristine Hartgen, Carl Martin Eggesbø, Cristoph Gelfert Mathiesen and Henrik Mestad. The film premiered in Norway in December 2022 and was released worldwide (except in Norway) on Netflix in January 2023.

On April 8, 1940, a group of Norwegian soldiers arrive at Narvik by ship. One of them, Corporal Gunnar Tofte is given permission to go home to see his son Ole on his birthday. He meets his wife Ingrid, who is a waitress at the town’s hotel, during a meeting between German and British representatives to discuss working relations between the warring states, who both need the iron ore mined in Kiruna and Gällivare, Sweden and brought to this Norwegian town by the ore railway for export.

After spending the night with his family, Gunnar awakes before dawn as Germans soldiers land in Narvik. After a brief standoff, the Norwegian commander orders his troops to withdraw. They march out to a railroad bridge in the mountains, which their new commander intends to dynamite to prevent its use by the Germans. After phoning his father Aslak on the dynamite’s whereabouts, Gunnar is told that his wife and child are on a train heading towards the bridge. Shortly afterwards, a group of civilians, including Ingrid and Ole, appear and cross just as German soldiers arrive. A firefight ensues and the bridge is blown up. Gunnar is captured, while Ingrid and Ole, who decided to watch, are taken back to town.

The Germans take over the hotel, enlist Ingrid as a translator since she speaks German and search for the British consul, Ross, whom Ingrid hides in a mountain cabin. The German consul Fritz Wussow asks Ingrid to assist him in negotiations with the hostile mayor Theodor Broch. Ingrid in turn asks Wussow to help get Gunnar released. After Ross calls on Ingrid to visit, he convinces her to steal military plans from Wussow by indirectly threatening her. While Ingrid is at the hotel, the British navy enters the harbor and starts firing on the German destroyers there, sending Ingrid, Ole, Aslak and other civilians to hide in a basement. After the engagement, all German destroyers are sunk, but no British soldiers have landed. In the chaos, Ingrid manages to steal a map of German artillery emplacements in town and then gives it to Ross, who sends the information to the British warships. As she returns, the British start bombarding the town, killing Aslak and injuring Ole when a shell lands on their house