The Heroes of Telemark

Unarmed and outnumbered, they stunned the world with their incredible victory.

6.919652h 11mReleased

Action

Drama

War

Overview

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.

StatusReleased

Release Date1965-11-12

Runtime2h 11m

LanguagesDeutschNorskEnglish

CountriesUnited Kingdom

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Cast & Crew

Kirk Douglas

as Dr. Rolf Pedersen

Richard Harris

as Knut Straud

Ulla Jacobsson

as Anna Pedersen

Michael Redgrave

as Uncle

David Weston

as Arne

Anton Diffring

as Major Frick

Eric Porter

as Terboven

Mervyn Johns

as Col. Wilkinson

Jennifer Hilary

as Sigrid

Roy Dotrice

as Jensen

Reviews

John Chard

Mar 21, 2014

7/10

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 stri…

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Wuchak

Feb 15, 2023

7/10

**_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…

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