The Saboteurs

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  1. Episode 1

  45m

  During the second world war, Nobel price winner Werner Heisenberg is the head of the nazis atomic project. Heisenberg needs heavy water for the reactor he is building, only produced by Norwegian Hydro at Vemork. The creator of the heavy water factory, scientist and resistance fighter Leif Tronstad, come to be sucpicious of the german purchase of heavy water and contacts English intelligence.

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  2. Episode 2

  45m

  Leif Tronstad assembles a sabotage group named Grouse. The aim is to assist the English commandos to blow up the water plant at Vemork. In Germany, Werner Heisenberg continues his work on the atomic reactor. Grouse is dropped over Hardangervidda and prepare a landing for the Englishmen.

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  3. Episode 3

  45m

  The English mission fails and the allies now wants to bomb the heavy water plant. Leif Tronstad persuades them to submit a Norwegian special force group to blow up the factory. Tronstad collect saboteurs, name the group Gunnerside and start training.

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  4. Episode 4

  45m

  Gunnerside lands on Hardangervidda and joins grouse. The twentyseventh of February, 1943, the 9 saboteurs skies down the mountain in the direction of Vemork to blow up the heavy water plant.

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  5. Episode 5

  45m

  The Germans are hard at work rebuilding the heavy water factory after the sabotage. CEO Henriksen at Norwegian Hydro discovers that he is dangerously close to be labeled as a war collaborator and tries negotiate his way out. In England the Americans decide to bomb Rjukan and the factory at Vemork.

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  6. Episode 6

  45m

  The Germans decide to move the heavy water factory to Germany and the allies once again decide to sabotage the German plan. Leif Tronstad arrives back in Norway to conduct operation "Sunshine".

Cast

Eirik Evjen

Kasper Idland

Anna Friel

Julie Smith

Mads Sjøgård Pettersen

Fredrik Kayser

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Andreas Döhler

Kurt Diebner

Robert Hunger-Bühler

Emil Leeb

Tobias Santelmann

Joachim Rønneberg

Dennis Storhøi

Bjørn Henriksen

Christian Rubeck

Claus Helberg

Frank Kjosås

Knut Haukelid

Marc Ben Puch

Major Decker

Christoph Bach

Werner Heisenberg

Peri Baumeister

Elisabeth Heisenberg