17 Sep 1981
Das Boot
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb
To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and Otto Hahn. In the 1930s on the verge of World War II, she led a small group of scientists who discovered that splitting the atomic nucleus of uranium releases enormous energy. This extraordinary film tells the story of a woman who was far ahead of her time as a scientist and a pioneer of feminism.
Top Billed Cast
Katherina Lange Lise Meitner
Estella Hebert Lise Meitner
Malte Tönissen Otto Hahn
Marek Gierszał Officer Muffat
Dietrich Hahn Self
Lore Sexl Self
Ruth Sime Self
Anne Hardy Self
Martin Trömel Self
Harald Lesch Self
Herwig Schopper Self
Oliver Bange Self
Michiko Kodama Self
Terumi Tanaka Self
Aimee von Truchsess Lisa Meitner
Bernhard Mühlig Ludwig Boltzmann
Johannes Ernst Otto Frisch
Thilo Jeckel Andrè Elpel Stefan Knüppel
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