The Adventures of Tartu

1943-10-01 • 1h 31m •

Romance War

6.2

User Score

17 votes

"Stevenson, a British soldier fluent in Rumanian and German, goes undercover to sabotage a German poison-gas factory..."

Overview

British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.

Harold S. Bucquet

Director

Howard Emmett Rogers

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Robert Donat

Captain Terence Stevenson, aka Jan Tartu

Valerie Hobson

Maruschuka Lanova

Walter Rilla

Inspector Otto Vogel

Glynis Johns

Paula Palacek

Phyllis Morris

Anna Palacek

Martin Miller

Doctor Novotny

Movie Details

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$N/A

Revenue

$N/A

Runtime

1h 31m

Release Date

1943-10-01

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

2022-06-26T09:24:26.448Z

There were quite a few of these medium-budget films made - not quite as propaganda, but serving to bolster the morale in Britain in the depths of WWII. This is one of them. Robert Donat plays a fictional British intelligence officer charged with seeking out and destroying a secret Nazi factory that was developing a lethal nerve-gas deep within enemy territory. He plays his part with style and a little humour, ably supported by Valerie Hobson and Walter Rilla, as he inveigles his way into the brutal Nazi infrastructure and risks life and limb to achieve his goals. It's a great boys own adventure story.