End of Innocence

End of Innocence

1991
3h 2m
6.0

6.0/10

3 votes • View on IMDb
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.

Status: Ended

Language: DE

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Production Information

Production Companies
ARD
Production Countries
Germany
Spoken Languages
German

Quick Facts

Original Title Ende der Unschuld
Release Date April 3, 1991
Status Ended
Language DE
IMDb ID tt0098788

Cast

Jürgen Hentsch
Jürgen Hentsch

Werner Heisenberg

Udo Samel
Udo Samel

Kurt Diebner

Rolf Hoppe
Rolf Hoppe

Otto Hahn

Walter Kreye
Walter Kreye

Fritz Strassmann

Fred Düren
Fred Düren

Albert Einstein

Hanne Hiob
Hanne Hiob

Lise Meitner

Jörg Gudzuhn
Jörg Gudzuhn

Leo Szilard

Nikolas Lansky
Nikolas Lansky

Edward Teller

Rolf Henniger
Rolf Henniger

Walter Gerlach

Rolf Illig
Rolf Illig

Max von Laue

Hanns Zischler
Hanns Zischler

Paul Harteck

Götz Schubert
Götz Schubert

Carl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker

Key Crew

Frank Beyer
Director
Wolfgang Menge
Writer
Lilo Pleimes
Producer
Norbert Schneider
Producer
Martin Wiebel
Executive Producer