Movie: Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water

Top 10 Billed Cast

Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Self - Professor

Raoul Dautry
Raoul Dautry

Self - Rustningsminister

Henki Kolstad
Henki Kolstad

Sersjant Einar Skinnarland

Johannes Eckhoff
Johannes Eckhoff

Fenrik Knut Hauglund

Claus Wiese
Claus Wiese

Fenrik Joachim Rønneberg

Øyvind Øyen
Øyvind Øyen

Major Professor Leif Tronstad

Andreas Aabel
Andreas Aabel

Fenrik Kasper Idland

Odd Rohde
Odd Rohde

Sersjant Birger Strømsheim

Rolf Sørlie
Rolf Sørlie

Self - Ingeniør

Torstein Skinnarland
Torstein Skinnarland

Self - Damvokter

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1948-02-05

  • Average

    5.2

  • Rating:

    2.6 starts
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