The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

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.

Director

Anthony Mann

Writers

Ben Barzman, Ivan Moffat

Themes1940satomic bombatomic energybased on true storybombing missioncommandingcommando unitdivorced coupledramaticelectric power station