Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water
1948 Norwegian film
- Jens-Anton Poulsson
- Johannes Eckhoff
- Arne Kjelstrup
- Claus Helberg
- Henki Kolstad
- Claus Wiese
- Knut Haukelid
- Fredrik Kayser
- Andreas Aabel
Marcel Weiss
Trident
Release date
- 1948 (1948)
Running time
France
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 history 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.
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
References
- ^ a b "French Box Office in 1948". Box Office Story.
External links
- Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water at IMDb
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