Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water
1948 Norwegian film
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Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water (original title: Kampen om tungtvannet, French title: La Bataille de l'eau lourde) is a Norwegian-French film from 1948. The story is based on the best known commando raid in Norway during World War II, where the resistance group Norwegian Independent Company 1 destroyed the heavy water plant at Vemork in Telemark in February 1943.
Directed byJean Dréville
Titus Vibe-Müller
Titus Vibe-Müller
Written byArild Feldborg, Jean Marin, Dinah Robertson, etc.
Starring
CinematographyHilding Bladh
Marcel Weiss
Marcel Weiss
| Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water | |
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From left, Joachim Rønneberg, Jens-Anton Poulsson and Kasper Idland receive King Haakon VII of Norway at the premiere of Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water (1948) | |
| Kampen om tungtvannet | |
| Directed by | Jean Dréville Titus Vibe-Müller |
| Written by | Arild Feldborg, Jean Marin, Dinah Robertson, etc. |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Hilding Bladh Marcel Weiss |
| Edited by | Jean Feyte |
| Music by | Gunnar Sønstevold |
| Distributed by | Hero Film Trident |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Countries | Norway France |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Box office | 5,373,377 admissions (France)[1] |
The film is basically a reconstruction of real events, a docudrama, with many of the participants playing themselves in the film. It was filmed on location in Norway.
Cast
- Andreas Aabel as Kasper Idland
- Jens-Anton Poulsson as himself
- Johannes Eckhoff
- Arne Kjelstrup as himself
- Claus Helberg as himself
- Claus Wiese as Joachim Rønneberg
- Henki Kolstad as Einar Skinnarland
- Knut Haukelid as himself
- Fredrik Kayser as himself
- Hans Storhaug as himself
- Torstein Skinnarland as himself, the dam keeper
- Rolf Sørlie as himself
- Knut Lier-Hansen as himself
- David Knudsen
- Harald Schwenzen
- Raoul Dautry
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie
- Lew Kowarski
- Sigrid Gurie
- Øyvind Øyen as the professor, Major Leif Tronstad
Reception
It was the second most popular film at the French box office in 1948.[1]
See also
- The Heroes of Telemark, a 1965 film
- The Heavy Water War, a 2015 TV series
