The Adventures of Tartu (1943) on Netflix
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In 1940, bomb disposal officer Terence Stevenson is dropped into Romania as chemical engineer Jan Tartu. He is to steal a Nazi poison gas formula and wreck the plant making it.
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Plot summary
In 1940, Captain Terence Stevenson defuses unexploded bombs for the British Army in London. Since he studied chemical engineering and speaks Romanian and German fluently, his superiors send him on a mission behind enemy lines. He parachutes into Romania as Jan Tartu, a Romanian chemical engineer, and travels toward Czechoslovakia posing as a German sympathizer. There his task is to obtain a new Nazi poison gas formula and destroy the factory that makes it. His shoemaker contact is arrested in a Gestapo raid before he can put Tartu in touch with the underground. In a German uniform, Tartu works as a foreman at a munitions plant and is billeted with Anna Palacek, whose daughter Pavla works there, the German Inspector Otto Vogel, and Maruschka Lanova, who courts the favor of the German officers.
Cast
- Phyllis Morrisas Anna Palacek
- Percy Walshas Dr. Willendorf
- David Wardas Bronte
- J. Hubert Leslieas Peter Valek(Hubert Leslie)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Adventures of Tartu (1943)
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- The film made unusual use of a captured Junkers Ju 88 bomber, shown in Luftwaffe markings, and of archival footage of the London Blitz and a Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighter to add authenticity.
- The Adventures of Tartu was the first MGM-British production in two years, an American-directed film with an all-British cast led by Robert Donat, whose previous film, The Young Mr. Pitt, was also a propaganda film.
