ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN

On the one hand there is the inhuman destructive potential of the new weapon, on the other its deterrent potential. “We need the bomb before Hitler has it”, is how the nuclear physicists involved in the development of the atomic bomb at the research centre in Los Alamos justify their work, including several Jewish migrants who fled the Nazis. But what if the bomb was used actually? The destruction of Nagasaki and Hiroshima later split the group; Ulam is involved in the development of the first computer. This multifaceted biopic was created on the basis of Ulam's autobiography, which went by the same name, with the support of the German-Polish Film Fund and was shot at locations including the Spreewald Forest and Cottbus-Drewitz. BB