Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water

Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water

107 mins | Drama, Action, War | Feb. 13, 1948

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.

Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water

107 mins | Drama, Action, War | Feb. 13, 1948

Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers
Original title La Bataille de l'eau lourde
Directors Titus Vibe-Müller, Jean Dréville
Writers

Cast

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

as lui-même (haut commissaire à l'energie atomique)

Raoul Dautry

as lui-même (ministre de l'armement en 1939)

Henki Kolstad

as Sersjant Einar Skinnarland

Johannes Eckhoff

as Fenrik Knut Hauglund

Claus Wiese

as Fenrik Joachim Rønneberg

Øyvind Øyen

as Major Professor Leif Tronstad

Andreas Aabel

as Fenrik Kasper Idland

Odd Rohde

as Sersjant Birger Strømsheim

Rolf Sørlie

as Ingeniør

Torstein Skinnarland

as Damvokter