Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water
1948 · 1h 47m · NOT RATED Action, Drama, War
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Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water
Overview
A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War.
Director and cast
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie as Self - Professor
- Raoul Dautry as Self - Rustningsminister
- Henki Kolstad as Sersjant Einar Skinnarland
- Johannes Eckhoff as Fenrik Knut Hauglund
- Claus Wiese as Fenrik Joachim Rønneberg
- Øyvind Øyen as Major Professor Leif Tronstad
- Andreas Aabel as Fenrik Kasper Idland
- Rolf Sørlie as Ingeniør
- Odd Rohde as Sersjant Birger Strømsheim
- Torstein Skinnarland as Damvokter
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