Released:
2013-05-03

Overview:
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.

Director:
Gideon Bradshaw

Runtime:
1h 0min

Genre:
Documentary, History

• 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