The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World (2013)

The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World

2013

Documentary History

Synopsis

Over 80 years after her death, Marie Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing - a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip. This multi-layered film reveals the real Marie Curie, an extraordinary woman who fell in love three times, had to survive the pain of loss, and the public humiliation of a doomed love affair. It is a riveting portrait of a tenacious mother and scientist, who opened the door on a whole new realm of physics, which she discovered and named - radioactivity.

Credits

Director

Gideon Bradshaw

Cast

Andrea Sella as Himself - University College, London

David Malone as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Geraldine James as Marie Curie's letters read by

Hélène Langevin-Joliot as Herself - Marie Curie's Granddaughter

Julie Des Jardins as Herself - Author: 'The Madam Curie Complex'

Malgorzata Sobieszczak-Marciniak as Herself - Maria Sklodowska-Curie Museum, Warsaw

Marie Curie as Herself (archive footage)

Patricia Fara as Herself - Clare College, Cambridge