End of Innocence (1991)

04/03/1991 (DE) • 3h 2m

Drama, War & Politics

Overview

End of Innocence is a two-part television film that focuses on the work of the German Uranium Association during World War II. At Farm Hall in England, the ten German nuclear scientists interned there as part of Operation Epsilon learn of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. In flashbacks, the development of the German uranium project is recapitulated chronologically from the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn to the work of Kurt Diebner at the Heereswaffenamt to the experiments of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the Haigerloch research reactor in spring 1945.

Top Billed Cast

Jürgen Hentsch

Werner Heisenberg

2 Episodes

Udo Samel

Kurt Diebner

2 Episodes

Rolf Hoppe

Otto Hahn

2 Episodes

Walter Kreye

Fritz Strassmann

2 Episodes

Fred Düren

Albert Einstein

2 Episodes

Hanne Hiob

Lise Meitner

2 Episodes


Last Season

Season 1

1991 | 2 Episodes

Season 1 of End of Innocence premiered on April 3, 1991.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Scripted

Original Language

German

Keywords

germany

atomic bomb

world war ii

nuclear bomb

history of science

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