The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World (2013)

Over 80 years after her death, Maria Skłodowska-Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing - a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip. This multi-layered film reveals the real Maria Skłodowska-Curie, an extraordinary woman who fell in love three times, had to survive the pain of loss, and the public humiliation of a doomed love affair. It is a riveting portrait of a tenacious mother and scientist, who opened the door on a whole new realm of physics, which she discovered and named - radioactivity.
- Released
- 2013-05-03
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Gideon Bradshaw
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- David Malone as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- Geraldine James as Maria Skłodowska-Curie's letters read by
- Marie Curie as Herself (archive footage)
- Julie Des Jardins as Herself - Author: 'The Madam Curie Complex'
- Patricia Fara as Herself - Clare College, Cambridge
- Malgorzata Sobieszczak-Marciniak as Herself - Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum, Warsaw
- Teresa Kaczorowska as Herself - Journalist and Author
- Renaud Huynh as Himself - Musée Curie, Paris
- Andrea Sella as Himself - University College, London
- Hélène Langevin-Joliot as Herself - Maria Skłodowska-Curie's Granddaughter
- Helena Pycior as Herself - University of Wisconsin
- Jean-Luc Pasquier as Himself - Radioprotection Expert