Over 80 years after her death, Maria Skłodowska-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 Maria Skłodowska-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.
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
as Maria Skłodowska-Curie's letters read by
as Herself (archive footage)
as Herself - Author: 'The Madam Curie Complex'
as Herself - Clare College, Cambridge
as Herself - Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum, Warsaw
as Herself - Journalist and Author
as Himself - Musée Curie, Paris
as Himself - University College, London
as Herself - Maria Skłodowska-Curie's Granddaughter
as Herself - University of Wisconsin
as Himself - Radioprotection Expert
