When science lost its innocence.
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and raw.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- sparerichly built
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“Is Philippe Tłokiński the best thing in Adventures of a Mathematician?”
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“Is the roughness the point?”
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“Would a little humor have helped?”
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Cast
- Philippe TłokińskiStan Ulam
- Esther GarrelFrancoise
- Sam KeeleyJack Calkin
- Joel BasmanEdward Teller
- Fabian KocięckiJohn von Neumann
- Ryan GageRobert Oppenheimer
- Sabin TambreaKlaus Fuchs
- Mateusz WięcławekAdam Ulam
- James Sobol KellyNorris Bradbury
- Alberto RuanoCarlos
Crew
- Thorsten KleinDirector
- Thorsten KleinWriter
- Tudor Vladimir PanduruDirector of Photography
- Agnieszka LiggettEditor
- Matthieu TaponierEditor
- Joanna SzymańskaProducer
- Nell GreenProducer
- Paul ZischlerProducer
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