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TORPEDO

By Sven HUYBRECHTS

MEDIASQUAD - as DISTR / BUYER REP

Action/Adventure - Completed 2019

a team of Belgian resistance fighters kidnap a German submarine during WWII to bring Uranium, needed for the Manhattan Project, from Belgian Kongo to New York.
(Based on historical facts)

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Action/Adventure, Thriller
- Countries
- BELGIUM
- Languages
- FLEMISH, GERMAN, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 110 mn
- Director(s)
- Sven HUYBRECHTS
- Writer(s)
- Sven HUYBRECHTS, Johan HOREMANS
- Cast
- Koen DE BOUW, Thure RIEFENSTEIN, Ella- June HENRARD, Foren SELDESLACHTS, Bert HAELVOET, Martin SEMMELROGGE, Stefan PERCEVAL, Gilles DE SCHRYVER, Sven DE RIDDER, Roberth VANDEN THOREN, Gène BERVOETS, Bouli LANNERS
- Producer(s)
- Hendrik VERTHE (a team productions), Kobe VAN STEENBERGHE (a team productions)
- Synopsis
- Based on historical facts:
  1939, Long Island, USA - Albert Einstein is working on a personal letter to president Roosevelt.
  The letter points out the devastating consequences of uranium and the fact that the Germans are experimenting with it. He sees the potential of these materials: upon fusion, a bomb with unseen power could be produced...
  Roosevelt takes the letter seriously, and starts a research committee: the Manhattan project, to develop the first atomic bomb in the world. They succeed and win the ‘race to discovery’ between Nazi-Germany and the USA, which ends, as we all know, the 6th of August 1945.