''Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water'' (original title: ''Kampen om tungtvannet'', French title: ''La Bataille de l'eau lourde'') is a Norwegian-French film from 1948. The history is based on the best known commando raid in Norway during
World War II, where the resistance group
Norwegian Independent Company 1 destroyed the heavy water plant at
Vemork in
Telemark in February 1943.
The film is basically a reconstruction of real events, a
docudrama
Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event".
Docudramas typic ...
, with many of the participants playing themselves in the film. It was filmed on location in
Norway.
Cast
Reception
It was the second most popular film at the French box office in 1948.
See also
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The Heroes of Telemark'', a 1965 film
*''
The Heavy Water War
''The Heavy Water War'' (original title ' and alternative title ''The Saboteurs'' ( UK)) is a six-episode war drama TV miniseries written by Petter S. Rosenlund and produced by Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
It is a Norwegian/Danish/Bri ...
'', a 2015 TV series
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1948 films
1948 war films
French docudrama films
1940s Norwegian-language films
Norwegian black-and-white films
French World War II films
Films set in Norway
Films shot in Norway
Films about Norwegian resistance movement
Films directed by Jean Dréville
Films directed by Titus Vibe-Müller
Docufiction films
Films about nuclear war and weapons
Science docudramas
Norwegian World War II films
1940s French films
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