The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb ( Kampen om tungtvannet ) ( The Saboteurs )

The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Kampen om tungtvannet
Alternate Title: The Saboteurs
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Norwegian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Norwegian ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
266 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2015 and produced in:
Norway ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Per-Olav Sørensen

Written By:
Ketil Gølme Andersen
Lars Andersen

Actors:
Andreas Döhler ..... Kurt Diebner (6 episodes, 2013-2015)
Robert Hunger-Bühler ..... Emil Leeb (6 episodes, 2013-2015)
Marc Benjamin Puch ..... Major Decker (6 episodes, 2013-2015)
Christoph Bach ..... Werner Heisenberg (6 episodes, 2015)
Peri Baumeister ..... Elisabeth Heisenberg (6 episodes, 2015)
Espen Reboli Bjerke ..... Jomar Brun (6 episodes, 2015)
Torstein Bjørklund ..... Arne Kjelstrup (6 episodes, 2015)
Endre Ellefsen ..... Hans Storhaug (6 episodes, 2015)
Ole Christoffer Ertvaag ..... Birger Strømsheim (6 episodes, 2015)
Eirik Evjen ..... Kasper Idland (6 episodes, 2015)
Anna Friel ..... Julie Smith (6 episodes, 2015)
Benjamin Helstad ..... Jens-Anton Poulsson (6 episodes, 2015)
Espen Klouman Høiner ..... Leif Tronstad (6 episodes, 2015)
Frank Kjosås ..... Knut Haukelid (6 episodes, 2015)
Rolf Kristian Larsen ..... Einar Skinnarland (6 episodes, 2015)
Ragnhild Myntevik ..... Astrid (6 episodes, 2015)
Mads Sjøgård Pettersen ..... Fredrik Kayser (6 episodes, 2015)
Søren Pilmark ..... Niels Bohr (6 episodes, 2015)
Christian Rubeck ..... Claus Helberg (6 episodes, 2015)
Maibritt Saerens ..... Ellen Henriksen (6 episodes, 2015)
Audun Sandem ..... Knut Haugland (6 episodes, 2015)
Tobias Santelmann ..... Joachim Rønneberg (6 episodes, 2015)
Dennis Storhøi ..... Bjørn Henriksen (6 episodes, 2015)
Pip Torrens ..... Wilson (6 episodes, 2015)
Stein Winge ..... Axel Aubert (6 episodes, 2015)
David Zimmerschied ..... Carl Fredrich von Weizsäcker (6 episodes, 2015)
Julia Schacht ..... Tone Jørgensen (2015) / ... (4 episodes, 2015)
Clara Lien Sunde ..... Lise (4 episodes, 2015)
Elg Elgesem ..... Rolf Danielsen (3 episodes, 2015)

Synopsis:

A six-part dramatisation of one of the most exciting stories from the Second World War - the Nazis efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 when German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics and is congratulated by his mentor Niels Bohr a previous Nobel Prize winner. One of the dramatic high points is the daring sabotage mission to blow up the heavy water factory in the Norwegian mountains in 1943. Leading English, Norwegian and German actors portray real life characters and we get to understand their dilemmas and challenges in this epic story, the outcome of which will determine the future of democracy.

Season 1
Episode #1.1 S1, Ep1 4 Jan. 2015
Nobel physics prize receiver Heisenberg is convinced by the Nazi government to make the first atomic bomb. But for this they need heavy water, only produced in Rjukan, Norway, something the French and Brits will prevent at all costs.
Episode #1.2 S1, Ep2 4 Jan. 2015
While the Nazis are working on the first atomic bomb, the saboteur-group Grouse, is put together of local resistance. They are to assist English commando-forces in blowing up the heavy water facility. Heisenberg's friendship with Bohr ends.
Episode #1.3 S1, Ep3 11 Jan. 2015
The English mission failed when both planes crash landed, and the surviving soldiers killed by the Nazis. Leif Tronstad convinces the allied to gather a local force to bomb Vemork. They are named Gunnerside.
Episode #1.4 S1, Ep4 18 Jan. 2015
The most famous of the 4 sabotage actions in the Heavy Water War, when a group of local saboteurs, trained in England, is bomb Vemork Heavy a water-facility outside Rjukan. The saboteurs hate the idea of crossing the gorge bridge.
Episode #1.5 S1, Ep5 25 Jan. 2015
The Nazis are building up again the Heavy water facility in record time after the bombing. Norsk Hydro company director is facing accusation of being a war collaborator. In England, the Americans decide to bomb Rjukan and Vemork.
Episode #1.6 S1, Ep6 1 Feb. 2015
The American bombers have killed many civilians, but the Heavy Water production is not harmed. The Nazis decide to take the production equipment to Germany, together with what they've of heavy water.

The story behind Hitler's plan of Germany getting the atomic bomb during WW2, and the heavy water sabotages in Rjukan, Norway, seen from four angles, the German side, the allied, the saboteurs and the company side.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 November, 2015.

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