NIELS BOHR - LARGER THAN LIFE, 77min., Denmark, Documentary
Directed by Marie Breyen, Anna von Lowzow
Niels Bohr - Larger Than Life” is an international documentary film that has great relevance to the world of today, with a war in Europe and the importance of co-operation between nations and science.
The story is about one of the world's greatest scientists and his Institute - Niels Bohr, who received the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his ground-breaking model of the atom. At the time no-one imagined that his Institute would accommodate 27 Nobel Prize recipients and be the leading centre for quantum mechanics, thus laying the bricks for the computer revolution but also for the most powerful man-made weapon ever created.
It is a drama with conflicts between The Soviet Union, Germany, England, and the USA during WW2. Winston Churchill wanted Niels Bohr imprisoned, the Germans invited Niels Bohr to work for them, Stalin took a shortcut by sending a KGB agent to Copenhagen and President Roosevelt started the Manhattan Project in which Niels Bohr soon became a key person in developing the atom bomb. It was a matter of time.