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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.
A film about the Norwegian resistance's attempt to sabotage the German atomic bomb project during World War II. Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris star as the physicist and the agent who try to stop the Nazis from producing heavy water in Telemark.
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- Action, Drama, History
- Anthony Mann
- 1965-12-03
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 at a Nazi facility in occupied...
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- Kirk Douglas
- Anthony Mann
- Benton Film Productions
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the war film The Heroes of Telemark, directed by Anthony Mann and based on a novel by Knut Haukelid. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers, and more on IMDb.
Jun 5, 2016 · How a Norwegian chemist and a team of commandos risked their lives to destroy a Nazi-controlled heavy water plant in Norway. Learn about the race between the Allies and the Germans to create a nuclear weapon and the role of heavy water in the process.
A movie about the Norwegian resistance's efforts to sabotage the German atomic bomb project during World War II. It follows the story of Dr. Rolf Pedersen (Kirk Douglas), who joins the resistance and tries to stop the Germans from shipping the heavy water out of Telemark.
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. The two men are forever at each other's throats (just as ...
