The Fight Over the Heavy Water
| Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water | |
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| Kampen om tungtvannet | |
| Directed by |
Jean Dréville Titus Vibe-Müller |
| Written by | Arild Feldborg, Jean Marin etc. |
| Starring |
Jens-Anton Poulsson Johannes Eckhoff Arne Kjelstrup Claus Helberg Henki Kolstad Claus Wiese Knut Haukelid Fredrik Kayser Andreas Aabel |
| Music by | Gunnar Sønstevold |
| Cinematography | Hilding Bladh Marcel Weiss |
| Edited by | Jean Feyte |
| Distributed by |
Hero Film Trident |
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98 minutes |
| Country | Norway France |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Box office | 5,373,377 admissions (France) |
Operation 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 World War 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.
It was the second most popular film at the French box office in 1948.
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