

The Heroes of Telemark
Unarmed and outnumbered, they stunned the world with their incredible victory.
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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- Language
- German
- atomic bomb
- world war ii
- based on true story
- saboteur
- norway
- physicist
- sabotage
- resistance fighter
- 1940s
- divorced couple
- atomic energy
- electric power station
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical31 Jan 1966
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU22 Nov 1965
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1 Jan 1966
NorwayNO
- Theatrical1512 Nov 1965
RomaniaRO
- Theatricalcinema „Republica”11 Mar 1968
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The Heroes of Telemark was released on 12 November 1965.
Audience reviews
3- J7/10
John Chard
3/21/2014
The Battle for Heavy Water. The Heroes of Telemark is directed by Anthony Mann and written by Ben Barzman and Ivan Moffat. It stars Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave and David Weston. Music is by Malcolm Arnold and cinematography by Robert Krasker. 1942, Nazi occupied Norway, and the Germans are making great strides with their plans for atomic weaponry. It’s down to a band of resis…
- W7/10
Wuchak
2/15/2023
**_The more realistic precursor to Where Eagles Dare_** During WW2, a resistant fighter in German-occupied Norway (Richard Harris) and an Oslo physics professor (Kirk Douglas) team-up to stop the Nazi operation of creating & transporting heavy water in order to produce the first atomic bomb and thus win the war. “The Heroes of Telemark” (1965) debuted three years before “Where Eagles Dare” and is based on the t…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
9/5/2024
It doesn't matter at what time of year I watch this wartime thriller, it always makes me reach for a jumper! The Nazis are working on a top secret project in a Norwegian hydro-electric plant. When the plans are smuggled out into the hands of the resistance - via Richard Harris and lothario physics professor Kirk Douglas, the allies realise that they are well on the way to developing a nuclear bomb and must be stopped…
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