Il mio amico Einstein (2008)
Il preludio del film è ambientato sull'isola di Príncipe, al largo della costa occidentale africana, dove la spedizione di Sir Arthur Eddington si prepara per osservare l'eclissi solare del 1919. Per comprendere meglio l'obiettivo della spedizione, il film ci riporta indietro nel tempo, agli inizi della prima guerra mondiale, nel 1914. Eddington, brillante astrofisico, è stato appena nominato Direttore dell'Osservatorio dell'Università di Cambridge da Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge e sta traslocando, insieme alla sorella Winni, in quella che un tempo era stata l'abitazione del celebre fisico Isaac Newton. Sir Logde lo informa che l'Università di Berlino sta riunendo i migliori scienziati tedeschi per fini bellici, e lo invita a svolgere delle ricerche sui lavori di un certo "Albert Einstein", che mirano a confutare la consolidata teoria della gravità dell'inglese Newton.
Direttore: Philip Martin
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Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein |
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David Tennant as Arthur Eddington |
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Richard McCabe as Frank Dyson |
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Patrick Kennedy as William Marston |
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Rebecca Hall as Winnie Eddington |
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Jim Broadbent as Sir Oliver Lodge |
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Jacob Theato as Eduard Einstein |
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Callum Williams as Hans Einstein |
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Lucy Cohu as Mileva Einstein |
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Donald Sumpter as Max Planck |
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Anton Lesser as Fritz Haber |
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Paul Brooke as H H Turner |
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Eleanor Tomlinson as Agnes Muller |
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Jodhi May as Elsa Einstein |
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Philip Whitchurch as Uncle Rudolf |
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Kika Markham as Aunt Fanny |
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Benjamin Uttley as Tennis Player 1 |
| Directing | Philip Martin | Director |
| Production | Charles Pattinson | Executive Producer |
| Production | Mark Pybus | Producer |
| Production | George Faber | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ildikó Kemény | Co-Producer |
| Camera | Julian Court | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Nicholas Hooper | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Peter Moffat | Writer |
| Editing | Trevor Waite | Editor |
| Production | Nina Gold | Casting |
| Art | Hayden Matthews | Supervising Art Director |
| Art | Claire Kenny | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Joanna Eatwell | Costume Design |
| Visual Effects | Iain Read | Visual Effects |
| Visual Effects | Dolores McGinley | Visual Effects |
| Art | Zoltán Horváth | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Judith Gill-Dougherty | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Attila Raczkevy | Art Direction |
| Sound | John Rodd | Sound Mixer |
| Visual Effects | Chris Mortimer | Visual Effects |
| Costume & Make-Up | Karen Dawson | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ildikó Makk | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Deanne Turner | Makeup Designer |
| Art | Magdi Kondorosi | Set Decoration |
| Sound | Iain Eyre | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Forbes Noonan | Foley Recordist |
| Art | Steve Clark | Art Direction |
| Production | Paola Villanueva Bidault | Producer |
| Production | David M. Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Production | Zsolt Spitzer | Unit Manager |