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The Heroes of Telemark
UNITED STATES · 1965

The Heroes of Telemark

Anthony Mann
World War II resistance nuclear weapons sabotage occupied Norway scientific warfare reluctant heroism
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Synopsis

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.

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