End of Innocence

A sober, talk-heavy reconstruction that feels like eavesdropping on history, rewarding patience with quiet moral unease.

Created by

Frank Beyer, Wolfgang Menge

Genres

Drama, War & politics

Starring

Jürgen Hentsch, Udo Samel, Rolf Hoppe

Overview

End of Innocence is a two-part television film that focuses on the work of the German Uranium Association during World War II. At Farm Hall in England, the ten German nuclear scientists interned there as part of Operation Epsilon learn of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. In flashbacks, the development of the German uranium project is recapitulated chronologically from the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn to the work of Kurt Diebner at the Heereswaffenamt to the experiments of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the Haigerloch research reactor in spring 1945.

How it feels

Earnest, tense, melancholic and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Science, war, guilt, morality

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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