ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN

By Thor KLEIN

INVISIBLE CARPET - as DISTR

Historical - Completed 2020

The true story of the oddly magnetic personality behind the invention of the H-bomb

    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Historical, Drama
    • Countries
    • BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, FRANCE, AUSTRIA, ROMANIA, NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, POLAND, NORWAY, TURKEY
    • Languages
    • BOSNIAN, ENGLISH, DUTCH
    • Duration
    • 103 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Thor KLEIN
    • Producer(s)
    • Dragonfly Films MIRROR PRODUCTIONS (Dragonfly Films Mirror Productions), Shipsboy Zischlermann FILMPRODUKTION (ShipsBoy Zischlermann Filmproduktion)
    • 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.