
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.

as Lise Meitner

as Lise Meitner

as Otto Hahn

as Officer Muffat


as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Lisa Meitner

as Ludwig Boltzmann

as Otto Frisch
















as Narrator (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

as Narrator (voice)