The Heroes of Telemark
β 6.9 Β· 1965 Β· 131m Β· Action Β· Drama Β· War
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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