End of Innocence (1991)
Drama · War & Politics
Overview
End of Innocence is a two-part television film that focuses on the work of the German Uranium Association during World War II. At Farm Hall in England, the ten German nuclear scientists interned there as part of Operation Epsilon learn of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. In flashbacks, the development of the German uranium project is recapitulated chronologically from the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn to the work of Kurt Diebner at the Heereswaffenamt to the experiments of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the Haigerloch research reactor in spring 1945.
Cast
- Jürgen Hentsch as Werner Heisenberg
- Udo Samel as Kurt Diebner
- Rolf Hoppe as Otto Hahn
- Walter Kreye as Fritz Strassmann
- Fred Düren as Albert Einstein
- Hanne Hiob as Lise Meitner
- Jörg Gudzuhn as Leo Szilard
- Nikolas Lansky as Edward Teller
- Rolf Henniger as Walter Gerlach
- Rolf Illig as Max von Laue