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Summary
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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- Date night
- Friends night
- Teens
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Not for laughs, warmth or comfort.
Cast
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Kirk DouglasDr. Rolf Pedersen
Richard HarrisKnut Straud
Ulla JacobssonAnna Pedersen
Michael RedgraveUncle
David WestonArne
Anton DiffringMajor Frick
Eric PorterTerboven
Mervyn JohnsCol. Wilkinson
Jennifer HilarySigrid
Roy DotriceJensen
Barry JonesProfessor Logan
Ralph MichaelNilssen
Geoffrey KeenGeneral Bolt
Maurice DenhamDoctor
Robert AyresGeneral Courts
Sebastian BreaksGunnar
Alan HowardOli
Patrick JordanHenrik
William MarloweClaus
Brook WilliamsEinar
David DaviesCaptain of "Galtesund"
Karl StepanekHartmuller
Faith BrookWoman on Bus
Crew
- Directed by
- Anthony Mann
- Written by
- John Drummond, Ivan Moffat, Knut Haukelid
- Produced by
- Benjamin Fisz
- Music by
- Malcolm Arnold
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Facts
November 12, 1965 · 2 h 11 min · Violence
- Released
- November 12, 1965
- Runtime
- 2 h 11 min
- Content
- Violence
- Genres
- Action, Drama, War
- Original language
- English
- Also spoken
- German, Norwegian
- Made in
- United Kingdom
- Available in
- 16 countries
- Keywords
- based on true story