Race for the Bomb (TV mini-series 1987)

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TV Mini-Series - 360 min - Drama | War

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This docudrama tells the story of how the atomic bomb came to be built.

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Credited cast:
	Miki Manojlovic	...	Edward Teller
	Jean-Paul Muel	...	Léo Szilard
	Maury Chaykin	...	Gen. Leslie Groves
	Tom Rack	...	Robert Oppenheimer
	Pier Paolo Capponi	...	Enrico Fermi (as Pier-Paolo Capponi)
	Myriam Mézières	...	Gertrude Weiss (as Myriam Mezières)
	Géza Kovács	...	Otto Frisch
	Vincent Grass	...	Hans Bethe
	Marie Bunel	...	Mici Teller
	Maud Rayer	...	Lise Meitner
	Jacques Perrin	...	Frédéric Joliot-Curie
	Huguette Faget	...	Marie Curie (as Hugette Faget)
	Amy Werba	...	Laura Fermi
	Denis Manuel	...	Albert Einstein
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	Cintija Asperger	...	Jean Tatlock (as Cintija Asperger Eastman)

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A dramatization of the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb at the close of World War Two. This series follows the development of the project, from Leo Szilard's first conception of the power within the atom, to the power struggles between J. Robert Oppenheimer, the project's science leader, and General Leslie Groves, the project's military commander. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>

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