The Heroes of Telemark

United Kingdom

1965

131 Min

Color

2.20:1

German, Norwegian, English

Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
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CAST Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, David Weston, Sebastian Breaks, John Golightly, Alan Howard, Patrick Jordan, William Marlowe, Brook Williams, Roy Dotrice, Anton Diffring, Ralph Michael, Eric Porter, Wolf Frees, Karel Stepanek, Gerard Heinz, Victor Beaumont, George Murcell, Mervyn Johns, Barry Jones, Geoffrey Keen, Robert Ayres, Jennifer Hilary, Maurice Denham, David Davies

SOUND Bill Daniels, Teddy Mason, Gordon K. McCallum, Gus Lloyd, Otto Snel

Synopsis

The Heroes of Telemark is a 1965 war film based on the true story of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during World War II. The Norwegian resistance sabotage the Vemork Norsk Hydro plant in the town of Rjukan in the county of Telemark, Norway, which the Nazis are using to produce heavy water to make a nuclear bomb. –Wikipedia

Director

Anthony Mann

Anthony Mann (June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967) was an American actor and film director.

Born Emil Anton Bundsmann in the Point Loma area of San Diego, Mann was the son of an Austrian immigrant, Emile Theodore Bundsmann, and Bertha Waxelbaum of Macon, Georgia.

Mann started out as an actor, appearing in plays off-Broadway in New York City. In 1938, he moved to Hollywood, where he joined the Selznick International Pictures.

Mann became an assistant director in 1942, directing low-budget assignments for RKO and Republic Pictures.

Mann was respected for his acute visual sensitivity toward the American Western landscape, effortlessly blending natural vistas with human drama. Mann’s dramas verged on classical tragedy, often showing anguished heroes attempting to resolve personal pain and confusion.

In 1967, Mann died from a heart attack in Berlin, Germany while filming the spy thriller A Dandy in Aspic. The film was completed by the film’s star, Laurence Harvey… read more