Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water

(1948)

★ 5.4 IMDb · 16 votes

Genres: Action, War, Drama

Year: 1948

Runtime: 107 мин

Country: France, Norway

Director: Jean Dréville, Titus Vibe-Müller

Cast: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Raoul Dautry, Henki Kolstad, Johannes Eckhoff, Claus Wiese, Øyvind Øyen, Andreas Aabel, Odd Rohde, Rolf Sørlie, Torstein Skinnarland

Plot

A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War.