Drama | Germany, Poland, UK 2020
Swiss premiere
OV w. Ger. ST | 102′ | Thor Klein
Joel Basman, Philippe Tlokinski, Esther Garrel
Talk with Thor Klein and Lena Vurma
Arthouse Uto
Houdini
Online-Edition
Is building a weapon of mass destruction morally justifiable? In the mid-1940s, brilliant minds argue about this question in Los Alamos, while trying to create the hydrogen bomb in the wake of the first atomic bomb. Jewish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam is right in the middle of it. After the surrender of Hitler’s Germany and the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he and other scientists start to have growing doubts about the necessity of their research. A thrilling historical drama, in which Zurich’s Joel Basman convincingly embodies Ulam’s scientific and moral adversary Edward Teller.