Fat Man and Little Boy

original title:
Fat Man and Little Boy
other titles:
(Die Schattenmacher), Shadow Makers
country / year of production:
USA / 1989
original length:
127 min. , color
premiere:
20 October 1989
genre:
melodrama
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director:
Roland Joffé
film script:
Bruce Robinson
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cast (role):
Paul Newman , William Dwight Schultz , Bonnie Bedelia Culkin , John Cusack
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plot synopsis:
The film tells the story about the research for the first atomic bomb and deals with the global consequences. In 1942 the race between the Germans and the Americans to be the first to build the bomb starts. The atomic bomb can decide about the end of World War II. In a desert town in New Mexico, that was specially built, the research for the atomic bomb starts.
keywords:
atomic bomb , desert , propaganda , collaboration , air raid , espionage
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
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availability:
VHS NTSC, DVD