The life of amazing Marie Curie on screen – exclusively and as a sign of “Thank you” for our supporters: Vienna March for Science presents the movie “Marie Curie” (D/PL/F 2016) in cooperation with Admiral-Kino and Filmladen on Tuesday, April 18, 19.00, at Admiral-Kino (Burggasse 119, 1070 Vienna). Everyone who registered as a supporter on http://www.sciencemarchvienna.at/en/supporters/ until Easter Monday, April 17, will be entered into a ticket draw for 40×2 tickets for this charity screening.
The physician and chemist Marie Curie, born 1867 in Warsaw, was outstanding and unique in so many ways. As female students were not allowed in Poland yet, she decided moving to Paris, where she did research on radioactivity at Sorbonne university. After her husband Pierre Curie died in 1906 in an accident, she took over teaching his classes as well as his professorship in General Physics. This made Marie Curie the first woman teaching and holding a professorship at Sorbonne university. In 1903, she received together with her husband the Nobel Prize in Physics; in 1911 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Therefore, her outstanding scientific genius may not be questioned, as she is the only woman to win twice and besides chemist Linus Pauling the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different fields.
Marie Curie’s quite unusual life as a female scientist back in those days offers a lot of great stories to tell. The French director Marie Noëlle focused in her movie “Marie Curie” on the years between 1904 and 1911, with numerous substantial occurrences in the life of Curie: together with her husband she discovered Polonium, she experienced first achievements with radioactivity in cancer therapy, she lost her husband, she won two Nobel Prizes – and she had a love affair with her colleague Paul Lengevin, a scandal almost costing her the second Noble Prize.
The movie “Marie Curie” was released in 2016 and is a French-Polish-German coproduction. The Polish actress Karolina Gruszka is starring as Marie Curie and showing a lot of intimate aspects of this female scientist. We are looking forward to the charity screening of “Marie Curie”, in cooperation with Admiral-Kino and Filmladen.