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Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean Dréville with Henki Kolstad
Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water (1948)
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Add to a movie listOperation 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 WW 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.
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L'histoire relate une mission de sabotage en 1943, contre l'usine qui distillait l'eau lourde pour l'Allemagne nazie, en Norvège occupée, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Actors
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