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ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN

By Thorsten KLEIN

Drama - Completed 2019

The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.

Festivals
& Awards

Palm Spring Fest. 2020

World Competition

Fort Lauderdale Film Festival 2020

Audience Award, President's Award

cottbus 2020

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Drama, Biography
- Countries
- GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM, POLAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH, POLISH
- Duration
- 93 mn
- Director(s)
- Thorsten KLEIN
- Writer(s)
- Thorsten KLEIN
- Cast
- Philippe TLOKINSKI, Esther GARREL, Sam KEELEY, Joel BASMAN
- Producer(s)
- Lena VURMA (Dragonfly Films), Paul ZISCHLER (Zischlermann Filmproduktion), Nell GREEN (Mirror Productions), Joanna SZYMANSKA (ShipsBoy)
- Synopsis
- Based on the autobiography “Adventures of a Mathematician” by Stanislaw Ulam.
  Cambridge, USA, 1942.
  
  Stan Ulam is a 30-year-old talented Polish Jewish mathematician, a good-looking bon vivant who is quick with a joke. Stan’s life becomes complicated when he loses his fellowship at Harvard but his best friend, the Hungarian genius Johnny von Neumann quickly offers him a mysterious job which takes him to New Mexico.
  Stan moves to Los Alamos with Françoise, a French woman he meets and marries after a whirlwind romance. Surrounded by young, eccentric, charismatic immigrant scientists Stan begins top secret work on a nuclear bomb that could potentially blow up the entire world.
  
  While desperately trying to help his sister flee Nazi occupied Poland, Stan teams up with Johnny to create the first computer giving birth to the digital age as Europe bursts into flames.

ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN

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