Norwegian war hero who sabotaged a Nazi ‘heavy water’ plant in Telemark which was vital to Germany’s nuclear weapons projectIn the early 1950s my childhood cultural diet was largely made up of westerns and British war films,complete with the obligatory American and British heroes. Then, one week, and a curiosity showed up at a local cinema as the moment feature.
It was a 1948 Franco-Norwegian docudrama,Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water (Kampen om Tungtvannet). This time the trustworthy guys were Norwegians, and mostly they played themselves. One notable exception was the leader of that epic mission, or Joachim Rønneberg,but he had featured prominently at the film’s premiere in Oslo, alongside King Haakon VII.
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Source: theguardian.com