Roland Joffe on Shadow Makers

Title

Roland Joffe on Shadow Makers

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:07:04

Description

Interview with Roland Joffe, director of the film Shadow Makers (known in the USA as Fat Man and Little Boy) on the importance of the film; casting and the real figures including Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves; and what the story is about- the building of the atom bomb and why it was dropped on a city.

Contributors

Roland Joffe

Keywords

Films; Film makers; Nuclear weapons; Nuclear bomb; Nuclear weapons testing; Nuclear engineering; Paul Newman; Nuclear physics; Robert Oppenheimer; Leslie Groves; Shadow Makers; Fat Man and Little Boy

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