To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and Otto Hahn. In the 1930s on the verge of World War II, she led a small group of scientists who discovered that splitting the atomic nucleus of uranium releases enormous energy. This extraordinary film tells the story of a woman who was far ahead of her time as a scientist and a pioneer of feminism.



Malte Tönissen
Otto Hahn
Marek Gierszał
Officer Muffat
Volker Kühn
Dietrich Hahn
Self
Lore Sexl
Self
Ruth Sime
Self