End of innocence

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Movie
Original title End of innocence
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1991
length 182 minutes
Rod
Director Frank Beyer
script Wolfgang crowd
production Norbert Schneider ,
Lilo Pleimes
music Günther Fischer
camera Michael Steinke
cut Angelika Siegmeier
occupation

The End of Innocence is a two-part television film by director Frank Beyer , which focuses on the work of the German uranium association during the Second World War. The film was shot in 1990/91 with a prominent cast by Allianz Filmproduktion Berlin under the leadership of WDR at numerous original locations. Wolfgang Quantity wrote the script. The television premiere took place on April 3 and 7, 1991 on ARD .

action

In the English Farm Hall , the ten German nuclear scientists interned there as part of Operation Epsilon learned in August 1945 that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima .

The flashback shows the development of the uranium project since the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn and Fritz Straßmann in December 1938, through Kurt Diebner's work in the Heereswaffenamt up to the experiments of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker on Haigerloch research reactor recapitulated chronologically in spring 1945.

International references such as Albert Einstein's petition to President Roosevelt in 1939 and the meeting between Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr in occupied Copenhagen in 1941 are also presented.

Jumps in time fade in the reactions and discussions of the researchers in Farm Hall after the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan .

Awards

Wolfgang Quantity and Frank Beyer received the 1991 television film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts of the Baden-Baden days of television play for writing and directing von Ende der Innschuld .

literature

Movie book

  • Wolfgang Quantity: End of Innocence - The Germans and their atomic bomb , People and World, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-353-00841-1 .

background

  • Mark Walker: The uranium machine - myth and reality of the German atomic bomb , Siedler, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-88680-359-7 .
  • Dieter Hoffmann (Ed.): Operation Epsilon - The Farm Hall Protocols or the Allied Fear of the German Atomic Bomb , translated by Wilfried Sczepan, Rowohlt, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3871340820 .

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