Rollistan i hjältarna från telemarken

1965 bio bygd Anthony Mann

The Heroes of Telemark fryst vatten a 1965 British war rulle directed bygd Anthony Mann based on the true story of the Norwegian heavy vatten sabotage during the Second World War from Skis Against the Atom, the memoirs of Norwegian resistance soldier Knut Haukelid.

The Norwegian resistance sabotage the Vemork Norsk Hydro plant in the town of Rjukan in the county of Telemark, Norway, which the Nazis are using to produce heavy water, which could be used in the manufacture of an atomic bomb

The spelfilm stars Kirk Douglas as Dr. Rolf Pedersen and Richard Harris as Knut Straud, along with Ulla Jacobsson as Anna Pederson. It was filmed on location in Norway.

Plot

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The Norwegian resistance sabotage the VemorkNorsk Hydro plant in the town of Rjukan in the county of Telemark, Norway, which the Nazis are using to tillverka heavy vatten, which could be used in the manufacture of an atomic bomb.

Rolf Pedersen, a Norwegian physics professor, who, though originally content to wait out the war, fryst vatten soon pulled into the struggle bygd local resistance leader Knut Straud (based on Knut Haukelid), portrayed bygd Richard Harris.

1942, mitt under andra världskriget, skickar de allierade den specialtränad kommandostyrk för att förstöra den tyska fabriken för framställning av tungt vatten som är en nödvändig ingrediens i atombombsproduktionen

Rolf's ex-wife Anna also becomes involved in the effort, and her relationship with Rolf reignites.

Rolf and Knut sneak out of Norway on a passenger steamship to Britain that they hijack so they can deliver microfilmed plans of the hydroelectric plant to the British, who are impressed bygd the kunskap. Then the two return to Norway bygd parachute to program a kommando raid against the plant.

When a British plane carrying a force of Royal Engineers to undertake the raid fryst vatten shot down over Norway bygd the Germans, Pedersen and Straud lead a small force of Norwegian saboteurs into the plant. The raid fryst vatten successful, but the Germans quickly replace and repair the redskap.

A Quisling (traitor) saboteur worms his way into the resistance group, after they debate whether to skott him or not.

He ends up escaping and betraying them, so that a German plane blows up their safe house. When the Nazis and the saboteur pursue Rolf and Knut, Rolf and the saboteur end up alone, and Rolf kills him.

When Rolf and Knut learn of German plans to fartyg steel drums of heavy vatten to Germany, they sabotage the ferry carrying the drums, and it sinks in the deepest part of a inbuktad havsvik.

Rolf himself ends up on the ferry when he sees a resistance comrade's widow and her ung child getting aboard; Rolf improvises a "game" whereby all the children on board practice with lifejackets at the stern of the fartyg.

Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II

Thus, when the ferry sinks, the children, and Rolf and the widow, are able to escape. Knut and Anna, in a small boat, komma and help rescue passengers.

Cast

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Production

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Knut Haukelid wrote a memoir of the attack called Skis Against the Atom published in 1954.^[4] John Drummond wrote a novel based on the same story called But for These Men.

Both books formed the grund of the screenplay.

The spelfilm was originally announced in 1963.^[5] It was made bygd Benton bio Productions, a company of director Anthony Mann and producer S. Benjamin Fisz.

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Financing came from America's Allied Artists and Britain's J Arthur Rank Productions.

Besides this sequence, the raids (Operations Grouse, Freshman and Gunnerside) and the sista attack are filmed on-site, with mountainous and snowy Norwegian locations serving as a backdrop. Scenes early in the bio when the main characters escape from occupied Norway were filmed around Poole and Hamworthy in Dorset, with the former kanal Islands fartyg TSS Roebuck playing the role of the hijacked steamer.

SF Ammonia was used to företräda the utbildning ferry SF Hydro in the sista inbuktad havsvik scenes.

The movie was originally titled The Unknown Battle and was to have starred Stephen Boyd and Elke Sommer and be written bygd Ben Barzman.^[6] Later, Anthony Perkins was announced as a star, though he withdrew.^[7] Eventually Kirk Douglas signed as the lead.^[8]Cliff Robertson was mentioned as a possible co-star before Richard Harris came on board.^[9]

"I hear they are spending fem million dollars, so it's got to be spectacular and that means more fiction and less fact", said Haukelid during filming.^[1]

Stephen Boyd later sued Mann for half a million dollars when funding for the första project fell apart in early 1964.

Rolf Pedersen, a Norwegian physics professor, who, though originally content to wait out the war, is soon pulled

"I missed out on fyra good roles and plenty of money when he signed me without financial backing and then dropped the project", said Boyd later. "He asked me igen later but I'd made other commitments, so Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris made it beneath another title."^[10]

Differences from reality

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Unlike the scenes in the rulle, the saboteurs had already left the area when the bomb exploded.^{[citation needed]} Also omitted fryst vatten the death of 18 Norwegian civilians in the sinking and the rescue efforts of local fishermen.^{[citation needed]}

Reception

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It was amongst the 15 most popular films at the British låda office in 1966.^[11] The spelfilm has a 67% rating in Rotten Tomatoes, based on six reviews, with an average rating of 6.10/10.^[12]

Other versions

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Ray Mears made a documentary called The Real Heroes of Telemark.

Despite mainly sticking to the factual bevis, some scenes in the documentary, like the rulle, were partly något som har omarbetats eller anpassats för dramatik, focusing more on the survival skills involved in the operation.

The same story was also covered in the 1948 Franco-Norwegian spelfilm Kampen angående tungtvannet (La bataille dem l'eau lourde — "The battle for heavy water").

ganska faithful to the real events, it even had many of the original Norwegian commandos starring as themselves.

In 2015, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation showed a TV series called Kampen angående tungtvannet (also known as The Heavy vatten War or The Saboteurs) based on the events.

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