Battle for heavy water

Movie
German title	Battle for heavy water
Original title	Kampen om tungtvannet
Country of production	France , Norway
original language	Norwegian
Publishing year	1948
length	98 (German v. 93) minutes
Rod
Director	Titus Vibe-Müller Jean Dréville
script	Jean Marin
music	Gunnar Sønstevold
camera	Hilding Bladh Marcel Weiss
cut	Titus Vibe-Müller Jean Feyte
occupation
Jens Anton Poulsson : himself Johannes Eckhoff : Knut Haugland Arne Kjelstrup : himself Claus Helberg : himself Henki Kolstad : Einar Skinnarland Claus Wiese : Joachim Rønneberg Knut Haukelid : himself Andreas Aabel : Kasper Idland Fredrik Kayser : himself Hans Storhaug : himself Odd Rohde : Birger Strømsheim Torstein Skinnarland : himself Rolf Sørlie : himself Knut Lier-Hansen : himself Øyvind Øyen : Prof. Leif Tronstad Thorleif Reiss : Jomar Brun

Battle for Heavy Water is a Norwegian-French semi-documentary fiction film by the directors Titus Vibe-Müller and Jean Dréville from 1948. The film was first broadcast on April 22, 1969 in the GDR on DFF 1 . It is based on real events and is about the efforts of Norwegian resistance fighters during the Second World War to sabotage the production and use of the heavy water produced in the Norwegian power station Vemork , which the National Socialists need to develop an atomic bomb . Quite a few of the resistance fighters play themselves in the film.

The story retold in the film was filmed again in 1965 by Anthony Mann with the key word "Heavy Water" .

production

Several resistance organizations helped finance the film.

There were three versions of the film, one each in Norwegian, English and German.

publication

On the occasion of the Norwegian premiere of the film, King Haakon VII thanks the resistance fighters who were involved in the sabotage

At the premiere of the film on February 5, 1948 in the Klingenberg cinema in Oslo , the Norwegian King Haakon VII and the film's leading actor were also present.

The English version of the film was shown at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck in 1956 .

Reviews

The quality of the film is judged as “decent” (original English quote: “fair” ) “despite many seams” .

See also

• Norwegian heavy water sabotage

Web links

• Battle for heavy water in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Fight for heavy water in the lexicon of international films
• Kampen om tungtvannet at filmbasen.no
• Movie poster: Norwegian motifs 1 , 2
• Youtube: Kampen om tungtvannet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Battle for heavy water in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on September 12, 2012
2. ^ ^{A b} La Bataille De L'Eau Lourde (1947) , in: The New York Times , accessed September 12, 2012
3. ↑ Klingenberg cinema, interiør, foajé, premi ... in: DigitaltMuseum, accessed on September 12, 2012
4. ↑ Kampen om tungtvannet , accessed on September 12, 2012
5. ↑ Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water , in: uniFrance films, accessed on September 12, 2012