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Director Biography - Thor Klein. Thor Klein grew up in Germany and studied at the prestigious German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). His debut feature film was science based mystery-thriller LOST PLACE, followed by Award-winning German-British-Polish co-production ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN which sold to over 30+ territories (among them USA/Samuel Goldwyn, France/Rezo and Germany ...
Sep 29, 2021 · Script's Editor Sadie Dean interviews 'Adventures of a Mathematician' writer-director Thor Klein about how his research influenced his screenplay and the importance of paying attention to every detail on screen. Plus, Thor shares invaluable advice for screenwriters adapting true stories.
Graduate of the prestigious German Film- and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). His feature debut, the 3D Mystery- Thriller LOST PLACE was released by Warner Bros Germany and selected as the first German movie ever mixed in Dolby Atmos. With his screenplay GHOSTS OF INDIA he won the IndoGerman Screenwriting Award, was granted development funding and got selected for the Reykjavik International ...
Apr 29, 2021 · Review: Adventures of a Mathematician. by Camillo De Marco. 29/04/2021 - Germany’s Thor Klein tackles the biography of the Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, who took part in the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. Philippe Tlokinski in Adventures of a Mathematician. Perhaps the most tragic but also the most ironic words on the ...
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In the 1940s, the Jewish mathematician Stan Ulam and his brother Adam fled from Poland to the USA from the National Socialists. They are deeply concerned about the fate of their parents and sister who stayed in Poland. Stan played a crucial role in the development of the hydrogen bomband the first computer. Here he experiences not only homesickness...
Stanisław Marcin Ulamwas a Polish- American mathematician. He came from a Polish-Jewishmiddle class family. His mathematics teacher was the Polish mathematician Stefan Banach, one of the leading figures at the Lviv math school. In accordance with the orientation of the Polish school, Ulam mainly dealt with questions from dimension theory, topologya...
Promotion and staff
The film received production funding of 200,000 euros from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburgand 500,000 euros from the BKM. The German-Polish Film Fund funded the production with 100,000 euros in addition to a material development grant of 40,000 euros. Directed by Thorsten Kleinaka Thor Klein, who also wrote the script. After the mystery thriller Lost Placefrom 2013, with François Goeske, Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen, Pit Bukowskiand Josefine Preußin the lead roles, it is the second feature film he...
Cast and filming
The leading role of Stanisław Marcin Ulamwas castby Philippe Tłokiński, Mateusz Więcławekplays his younger brother Adam and the French actress Esther GarrelStan's wife Francoise. Ryan Gagecan be seen in the role of Robert Oppenheimer. The theoretical physicist of German-Jewish descent became known as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project and is known as the "father of the atomic bomb". James Sobol Kellyplays Norris Bradbury, who also worked on the Manhattan Project and was responsi...
publication
The first screenings took place in January 2020 at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The European premieretook place in November 2020 at the Cambridge Film Festival. In December 2020 screenings at the Cottbus Film Festival areplanned.
Reviews
Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporterwrites that even if the Holocaust isonly sketchily treated, the film helps explain why some of the European-born scientists and mathematicians who worked in Los Alamos wereso extremely motivated to build an atomic bomb, which could help defeat Nazi Germany. This motivation to build a weapon of mass destructiondisappeared when Germany surrendered in May 1945, and some of the scientists questioned the need to continue their work. In the film, the attacks...
Awards
Hof Film Festival2020 1. Awarded the VGF Young Producer Award (Lena Vurma)
Adventures of a Mathematician in der Internet Movie Database (englisch)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missingAdventures of a Mathematician bei crew uniteda b c d Stephen Farber: 'Adventures of a Mathematician': Film Review.In: The Hollywood Reporter, 17. Januar 2020.https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanislaw-Ulamhttps://beta.blickpunktfilm.de/details/433586^ Program booklet of the Palm Springs International Film Festival 2020.In: psfilmfest.org. Retrieved October 24, 2020 (PDF; 331 KB)Mini Bio. Writer/ Director Thor Klein was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Since 2005 he lives and works in Berlin. He is a dffb (German Film- and Television Academy Berlin) alumni in screenwriting. Thor's debut feature film as writer/director was Lost Place - the first German mystery- thriller shot in 3D and mixed in Dolby Atmos.
Thor Klein Active - 2013 - 2021 | Genres - Biography , Drama , History , Horror , Mystery-Suspense | Subgenres - Historical Film Overview ↓
