# The Saboteurs (2015)

> Norwegian Allies risk everything to sabotage a Nazi heavy water plant before it can fuel an atomic bomb.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/55079

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, war
- Created by: Per-Olav Sørensen, Petter Rosenlund
- Network: NRK1
- Cast: Eirik Evjen, Anna Friel, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen, Andreas Döhler, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Tobias Santelmann, Dennis Storhøi, Christian Rubeck
- TMDB rating: 7.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3280150/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: tense, sober, suspenseful, austere, morally weighted

## What critics say

Viewers broadly rate the miniseries as a positive, tense retelling of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage, praised for its suspense and historical grounding.

## Synopsis

The Saboteurs (2015) is a Norwegian national-television historical war miniseries created by Per-Olav Sørensen and Petter Rosenlund for NRK1. Across six 45-minute episodes, the story follows Norwegian Allied operatives, including Joachim Rønneberg (Tobias Santelmann) and Kasper Idland (Eirik Evjen), who struggle to stop the Nazis from securing a heavy water plant that would advance their plan to build an atomic bomb. Anna Friel plays Julie Smith, and Andreas Döhler appears as the German physicist Kurt Diebner, bringing the opposing scientific ambition into focus. The engine is simple and taut: each episode builds a tense operation of infiltration, sabotage, and narrow escape, with concrete obstacles such as guarded facilities, double agents, and hard winter terrain. Set in occupied Norway during World War II, the series moves between clandestine safehouses, snowbound mountains, and industrial sites rendered with grounded, austere realism. Its tone is sober, suspenseful, and morally weighted, with an undercurrent of dread about what a weapon of mass destruction would mean. Fans of Max Manus, Band of Brothers, and Charlotte Gray will find resonance in its blend of true wartime history and covert action. Its short, self-contained run makes it an efficient, gripping watch.

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