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The Heroes of Telemark

1965

In Nazi-occupied Norway, a resistance fighter and a reluctant physicist lead a daring sabotage mission to destroy the German heavy-water plant that could give Hitler the atomic bomb. A grand World War II adventure based on true events.

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A British war film about Norwegian resistance and the heavy-water sabotage.

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