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The Saboteurs

The Saboteurs

★ 7.2/10•2015•45m•TV-14•Drama•War & Politics
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When the Nazis secure a heavy water plant to realize their plan to create an atomic bomb, the Norwegian Allies struggle to sabotage the operation.

Petter Rosenlund · Screenplay

Per-Olav Sørensen · Director

StatusEnded
Runtime45m
LanguageNO
First Air DateJan 4, 2015

Episodes

Episode 1 - Episode 1E145m

Episode 1

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.

Jan 4, 2015

Episode 2 - Episode 2E245m

Episode 2

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.

Jan 4, 2015

Episode 3 - Episode 3E345m

Episode 3

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.

Jan 11, 2015

Episode 4 - Episode 4E445m

Episode 4

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.

Jan 18, 2015

Episode 5 - Episode 5E545m

Episode 5

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.

Jan 25, 2015

Episode 6 - Episode 6E645m

Episode 6

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".

Feb 1, 2015

Actors

Eirik Evjen

Eirik Evjen

Kasper Idland

Anna Friel

Anna Friel

Julie Smith

Mads Sjøgård Pettersen

Mads Sjøgård Pettersen

Fredrik Kayser

Andreas Döhler

Kurt Diebner

Robert Hunger-Bühler

Robert Hunger-Bühler

Emil Leeb

Tobias Santelmann

Tobias Santelmann

Joachim Rønneberg

Dennis Storhøi

Dennis Storhøi

Bjørn Henriksen

Christian Rubeck

Christian Rubeck

Claus Helberg

Frank Kjosås

Frank Kjosås

Knut Haukelid

Marc Ben Puch

Marc Ben Puch

Major Decker

Christoph Bach

Christoph Bach

Werner Heisenberg

Peri Baumeister

Peri Baumeister

Elisabeth Heisenberg

Espen Reboli Bjerke

Espen Reboli Bjerke

Arne Kjelstrup

Endre Ellefsen

Hans Storhaug

Ole Christoffer Ertvaag

Ole Christoffer Ertvaag

Birger Strømsheim

Espen Klouman Høiner

Espen Klouman Høiner

Leif Tronstad

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