Oppenheimer

original title:
Oppenheimer
other titles:
Weitere Titel nach lateinischem Alphabet / Other titles according to the Latin alphabet: Openhaymer (Aserbaidschanisch / Azerbaijani), Oppenhaima (Japanisch / Japanese): In japanischen Schriftzeichen geschrieben / written in Japanese characters, Openheimeris (Litauisch / Lithuanian), Ào ben hai mò (Mandarin / Mandarin, Kantonesisch / Cantonese, Taiwanesisch / Taiwanese): In chinesischen Schriftzeichen geschrieben / written in Chinese characters, Oppengeymer (Usbekisch / Uzbek); Weitere Titel nach anderem Alphabet / Other titles according to a different alphabet: Ein Titel nach Devanagari / A Title according to Devanagari (Hindi / Hindi), Titel nach griechischem Alphabet / A Title according to the Greek alphabet, Titel nach kyrillischem Alphabet / Titles in Cyrillic alphabet (z. B. / e. g.: Russisch / Russian, Ukrainisch / Ukrainian, Kasachischen / Kazakh) oder Ähnliche, wie im Bulgarischen, Serbischen / or similar, as in Bulgarian, Serbian
country / year of production:
USA / 2022
original length:
180 min. , color
premiere:
FR: 11 July 2023
genre:
biography
based on:
Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin Jay: American Prometheus. The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York City, N. Y. (USA): Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
director:
Christopher Edward Nolan
film script:
Christopher Edward Nolan
producer:
Christopher Edward Nolan , Charles Roven , Emma Thomas
cinematographer:
Hoyte van Hoytema
editor:
Jennifer Lame
composer:
Ludwig Göransson
cast (role):
Cillian Murphy (Julius Robert Oppenheimer) , Emily Blunt (Kitty Oppenheimer) , Matt Damon (Leslie R. Groves) , Robert Downey Jr. (Lewis Strauss) , Florence Pugh (Jean Tatlock) , Josh Hartnett (Ernest Lawrence) , Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (Boris Pash) , Rami Said Malek (David L. Hill) , Kenneth Charles Branagh (Niels Bohr) , Ben Safdie (Edward Teller) , Jason Clarke (Roger Robb) , Dylan Arnold (Frank Oppenheimer) , Gustaf Caspar Orm Skarsgård (Hans Bethe) , David Krumholtz (Isidor Isaac Rabi) , Matthew Modine (Vannevar Bush) , Thomas Antonio Conti (Albert Einstein) , David Dastmalchian (William Borden) , Michael Anthony Angarano (Robert Serber) , Jack Henry Quaid (Richard Feynman) , Joshua Michael Peck (Kenneth Bainbridge) , Olivia Thirlby (Lilli Hornig) , Dane William DeHaan (Kenneth Nichols) , Danny Deferrari (Enrico Fermi) , Alden Caleb Ehrenreich (Strauss’ Berater im Senat) , Scott Grimes (Strauss’ Anwalt) , Jefferson Hall (Haakon Chevalier) , James D'Arcy (Patrick Blackett) , Anthony Howard Goldwyn (Gordon Gray) , Devon Bostick (Seth Neddermeyer) , Alexander Draper Wolff (Luis Walter Alvarez) , Joshua Ryan Zuckerman (Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz) , Matthias Schweighöfer (Werner Heisenberg) , Christopher Denham (Klaus Fuchs) , David Rysdahl (Donald Hornig) , Guy Burnet (George Eltenton) , Louise Lombard (Ruth Tolman) , Harrison Gilbertson (Philip Morrison) , Emma Dumont (Jackie Oppenheimer) , Trond Fausa Aurvåg (George Kistiakowsky) , Olli Haaskivi (Edward Condon) , Gary Oldman (Harry S. Truman) , Macon Blair (Lloyd Garrison) , Harry Groener (Gale W. McGee) , Jack Cutmore-Scott (Lyall Johnson) , James Remar (Henry L. Stimson) , Gregory Jbara (Warren Magnuson) , Timothy Robert DeKay (John Pastore) , James Urbaniak (Kurt Gödel) , John Gowans (Ward Evans) , Will Roberts (George C. Marshall) , Máté Haumann (Leó Szilárd) , Pat Skipper (James F. Byrnes) , Theodore William King (Edward L. Bartlett) , Cillian Murphy , Emily Blunt , Matt Damon , Robert Downey Jr. , Florence Pugh , Josh Hartnett , Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt , Rami Said Malek , Kenneth Charles Branagh , Ben Safdie , Jason Clarke , Dylan Arnold , Gustaf Caspar Orm Skarsgård , David Krumholtz , Matthew Modine , Thomas Antonio Conti , David Dastmalchian , Michael Anthony Angarano , Jack Henry Quaid , Joshua Michael Peck , Olivia Thirlby , Dane William DeHaan , Danny Deferrari , Alden Caleb Ehrenreich , Scott Grimes , Jefferson Hall , James D'Arcy , Anthony Howard Goldwyn , Devon Bostick , Alexander Draper Wolff , Joshua Ryan Zuckerman , Matthias Schweighöfer , Christopher Denham , David Rysdahl , Guy Burnet , Louise Lombard , Harrison Gilbertson , Emma Dumont , Trond Fausa Aurvåg , Olli Haaskivi , Gary Oldman , Macon Blair , Harry Groener , Jack Cutmore-Scott , James Remar , Gregory Jbara , Timothy Robert DeKay , James Urbaniak , John Gowans , Will Roberts , Máté Haumann , Pat Skipper , Theodore William King
more:
Scott Ray Fisher (Special Effects Supervisor)
plot synopsis:
"Oppenheimer" tells the story of the US-american theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, beginning at his time as a student and spanning all the way till the end of his life, when he got discredited as a communist by high-ranking politicians during Mccarthyism.
The movie mixes two timelines.
The first one portrays Oppenheimer's carrer as a student, physician and later as head of the Manhattan-project resulting in the fist detonation of an atomic bomb. At the same time he and his wife Kitty Oppenheimer have to grapple with their past when both of them had contact to American communists, resulting in the accusation to be communists themselves. Those sequences were shot in color only.
The second timeline portrays Oppenheimer's conflict with US-american politician Lewis Strauss, who is suspicious of Oppenheimer discrediting him - the prevented physician - in front of Albert Einstein. Thereupon Strauss starts a vendetta ending in Oppenheimer's dismissal from the Atomic Energy Commission founded in 1946. In the process he utilizes Oppenheimer's and his wife's contacts to American communists, Oppenheimer's engagement against an arms race between nations and his disapproval towards the developement of a hydrogen bomb to depict him as a sympathizer and supporter of communism. Politically ruined Oppenheimer is fired from the Atomic Energy Commission. Strauss' behavior fires back when he has to give testimony in front of congress to be nominated for Secretary of Commerce what due to the testimony of former colleagues of Oppenheimer, enraged by his dismissal, turns into a disaster. Those scenes were exclusively shot in black and white.
In fact Einstein's gloomy mood, he shows towards Strauss, has a different reason: During a chat at a lake, Oppenheimer confronts Einstein with the works of his colleague Edward Teller which suggest that the detonation of an atomic bomb may set the atmosphere on fire and thereby obliterate any life on earth. In a melodramatic scene Oppenheimer utters his apprehension, that he might have obliterated planet earth, even though he has not set the atmosphere on fire. Nevertheless Oppenheimer experiences his political rehabilitation by John F. Kennedy whose successor Lyndon B. Johnson awards him the Enrico-Fermi-Prize, which is awarded for bleeding-edge research around the topic of nuclear physics. Mentally Oppenheimer - psychologically instable since his time as a student - is haunted by visions of a planet scarred by nuclear bombs.
keywords:
atomic bomb , communism , black and white film , colour film , post-war era , war-profiteers
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
- Nolan, Christopher Edward: Oppenheimer. The Official Screenplay. London: Faber & Faber, 2023.
- Yuan, Jade: Unleashing Oppenheimer. Inside Christopher Nolan's Explosive Atomic Age Thriller. London: Titan Publishing Group, 2023.
remarks:
The film tape for the black and white sequences in IMAX was created by Kodak for Oppenheimer specifically. - Some cinema goers combined Oppenheimer and Barbie, a movie hitting the theaters at the same time, with the newly created buzzword "Barbenheimer", for receiving both of them as a sociopolitical critique. - A sex scene between Oppenheimer and his beloved Jean Tatlock caused controversy due to the licentiousness and the excerpts of the Bhagavad Gita (a holy text in hinduism) Oppenheimer is reading to her.
availability:
- Oppenheimer (4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital): EAN: 0191329253120. 21.11.2023
- Oppenheimer (DVD): EAN: 0191329253113. 21.11.2023
- Oppenheimer (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital): EAN: 0191329253045. 21.11.2023