The Heroes of Telemark
Nov 12 1965
•2h 11m
•Action, Drama, 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.
Cast
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Kirk Douglas
Dr. Rolf Pedersen
Richard Harris
Knut Straud
Ulla Jacobsson
Anna Pedersen
Michael Redgrave
Uncle
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