Number 24 (film)

Number 24, also spelled Nr 24, is a 2024 Norwegian biographical feature film about the Norwegian resistance fighter Gunnar Sønsteby. The film is directed by John Andreas Andersen and produced by Motion Blur. It premiered in Norway on 30 October 2024.

Number 24
Directed by	John Andreas Andersen
Story by	Erlend Loe Vibeke Idsøe Christopher Grøndahl
Produced by	Terje Strømstad John M. Jacobsen
Starring	Sjur Vatne Brean Erik Hivju Philip Helgar Magnus Dugdale Lisa Loven Kongsli Benjamin Myhre
Music by	Kristoffer Lo

Synopsis

The film follows Sønsteby from the campaign in 1940 and throughout World War II. It dramatizes several of the Oslo Group's sabotage operations and assassinations during World War II, and is framed by an elderly Sønsteby giving a lecture to school students in Rjukan, where he recounts the events he participated in during the war.^[1]

Cast

• Sjur Vatne Brean [no] as Gunnar Sønsteby (young)
• Erik Hivju as Gunnar Sønsteby (old)
• Lisa Loven Kongsli as Gudrun Collett [no]
• Magnus Dugdale as Andreas Aubert
• Benjamin Myhre [no] as Max Manus
• Philip Helgar as Edvard Tallaksen
• Ulrik William Græsli as Gregers Gram
• Jørgen Cleve Broch as Knut Haugland
• Ines Høysæter Asserson [no] as Reidun Andersen
• Per Kjerstad [no] as Karl Marthinsen
• Jakob Maanum Trulsen [no] as Karl Erling Øhrn Solheim
• August Wittgenstein as Siegfried Fehmer
• Erik Madsen [no] as Erwin Karl Morio [no]
• Lars Berge as Oscar Beck [no]
• William Gundersen as Arne Gundeid [no]
• Kristian Halken as Haakon VII
• Petter Width Kristiansen as Olav V
• Mark Noble as J. S. Wilson
• Martin Karelius Østensen as Philip Hansteen
• Pål Christian Eggen [no] as Hans Konrad Andersen [no]
• Cato Skimten Storengen [no] as Petter Ringen Johannessen [no]
• Flo Fagerli as Anne Solheim
• Morten Rudå as Sverre Hornbæch
• Tobias Aksdal as Halvor Rivrud [no]
• Benjamin Noble as Daniel Ring [no]
• Jacob Jensen as Jens Christian Hauge

Production

The film was written as an original spec script by first-time writer Espen von Ibenfeldt and later purchased by Motion Blur.^[2]

Sjur Vatne Brean plays the lead role as the young Sønsteby during the war,^[3] while Erik Hivju plays an older version of the war hero.^[4]

The title of the film is the same as the most well-known code name used by Gunnar Sønsteby.^[5]

Release

Number 24 premiered in Norway on 30 October 2024, with special pre-premieres in Flekkefjord on 22 October, Oslo on 23 October, and Rjukan on 24 October.^[2]

It became available on the streaming platform Netflix in 2025, where it was the most-streamed film in Norway during its opening weeks.^{[citation needed]} Number 24 has an approval rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 11 reviews.^[6]