Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb (2013)

Documentary · History

Overview

To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and Otto Hahn. In the 1930s on the verge of World War II, she led a small group of scientists who discovered that splitting the atomic nucleus of uranium releases enormous energy. This extraordinary film tells the story of a woman who was far ahead of her time as a scientist and a pioneer of feminism.

Cast

• Katherina Lange as Lise Meitner
• Estella Hebert as Lise Meitner
• Malte Tönissen as Otto Hahn
• Marek Gierszał as Officer Muffat
• Volker Kühn
• Dietrich Hahn as Self
• Lore Sexl as Self
• Ruth Sime as Self
• Charlotte Kerner as Self
• Anne Hardy as Self

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