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The Heroes of Telemark is a 1965 British war film directed by Anthony Mann based on the true story of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during the Second World War from Skis Against the Atom, the memoirs of Norwegian resistance soldier Knut Haukelid.
The Heroes of Telemark: Directed by Anthony Mann. With Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave. Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II.
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- Action, Drama, History
- Anthony Mann
- 1965-12-03
The Heroes of Telemark. In this fact-based film, as Axis and Allied scientists race to create the first atomic bomb, British Intelligence receives shocking news of significant breakthroughs...
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- Kirk Douglas
- Anthony Mann
- Benton Film Productions
The Heroes of Telemark (1965) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Based on a true story, The Heroes of Telemark stars Kirk Douglas as Dr. Rolf Pedersen, a scientist who's forced to team up with a Norwegian underground leader (Richard Harris), to destroy a factory where Nazis are producing "heavy water," a key element in the making of atomic weapons.
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Resistance fighter Knut Straud (Richard Harris) enlists the reluctant physicist Dr. Rolf Pedersen (Kirk Douglas) in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant near the village of Rjukan in rural Telemark.