End of Innocence
Ende der Unschuld
Drama
War & Politics
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.
1991-04-03
de
Cast
Director
Frank Beyer
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
Jörg Gudzuhn as Leo Szilard
Nikolas Lansky as Edward Teller
Hanns Zischler as Paul Harteck
Götz Schubert as Carl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker
Klaus Pohl as Karl Wirtz
Wolfram Teufel as Erich Bagge
Ulrich Mühe as Julian Green