The Heroes of Telemark

1965
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2h 11m

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6.5/10

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Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II.

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Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce heavy water needed for making atomic bombs during World War II.Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce heavy water needed for making atomic bombs during World War II.Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce heavy water needed for making atomic bombs during World War II.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

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Trivia
In early 1940, the Allies approved a naval campaign designed to seize the northern part of Norway, a neutral country, including the key port of Narvik, and possibly also to seize the iron mines at Gällivare in northern Sweden, from which Germany obtained much of its iron ore. The British planned to invade Norway in March 1940 to use the ports as bases for the Royal Navy in order to encircle Germany, but the operation (codenamed Plan R 4) was postponed. The British and French had previously planned to invade Sweden, in order to assist Finland during the Winter War against the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler found out about Plan R 4, and militarily intervened as the British began Operation Wilfred by laying mines in neutral Norwegian waters.

Goofs
Early in the movie Dr Pedersen enters a boat in Oslo harbor to go to Trondheim. Nobody would take a boat from Oslo to Trondheim (a long trip lasting several days) as there is a direct train lasting 8-10 hours. In any case there was never a regular boat service from Oslo to Trondheim. Later Pedersen says he is going to Kristiansund, a town south of Trondheim.

Quotes
Terboven: Winston Churchill is puffing an extra big cigar today. And we laugh at him. Why? Because all these containers, which the British did so much to destroy, have already been pre-fabricated in Berlin. They are already on their way here and will be installed by tomorrow.
Nilssen: That is... I must say that is fantastic efficiency!
Terboven: Don't you ever make the mistake of under-rating the Germans. By Easter we will have not merely 10,000 pounds of heavy water, but 12,000 pounds of heavy water.

Crazy credits
Opening credits prologue: GERMAN-OCCUPIED NORWAY 1942

Connections
Edited into Krigens beste historie - Kampen om tungtvannet (2015)

Soundtracks
Wir fahren gegen Engeland
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Music by Herms Niel

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Missed a few facts?

I see a few comments that are decrying the liberties taken with the true story, as usual, by Hollywood.

Not that it's not a common occurrence, and I'm not defending such practice - but I do feel it necessary to point out that THIS film is NOT, in fact, a Hollywood film at all. It IS a British film. Any complaints one can have with the omission or alteration of events must be directed at Rank, not at the non-specific "Hollywood".

The events of the movie, and the true-life events, are fascinating. It's a terrible thing to contemplate, Nazis creating the atomic bomb. What would our world be like today if they had succeeded? This was certainly a WWII story worth telling.