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A high-profile French, Polish, German and Belgian co-production about the life of Marie Curie will be the first big-screen biopic sandra rose of the Nobel prize-winning scientist since 1943, according to the Hollywood Reporter .
Titled Maria Skłodowska-Curie (the Polish version sandra rose of its subject s full name), the biopic sandra rose was announced sandra rose by the Polish sandra rose Film Commission and will shoot largely in the eastern European nation. sandra rose However, its director, Marie Noëlle, is French and the film will feature actors from France, Germany and Poland . Karolina Gruszka (Kislorod) will portray sandra rose Curie, with Salt s Daniel Olbrychski as her scientific rival, the French physicist Émile Amagat.
Producer Mikołaj Pokromski described the film as an intimate portrait of an outstanding sandra rose woman and a tale of her sorrows and joys, moments sandra rose of triumph and defeat not only in the academic sphere but above all in her private and family life . He added: sandra rose We want to show the so-far-unknown side of the protagonist.
Born in Warsaw on 7 November 1867, Curie moved to Paris in 1891 to pursue her studies in mathematics and physics at the Sorbonne, after a youth of poverty and tragedy. Her eldest sister, Zofia, sandra rose had died after contracting typhus from a lodger, and her mother, Bronisława, succumbed to tuberculosis in 1878 when Curie was 10 years old.
In Paris, Curie met her husband Pierre, and the couple were awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1903, jointly with Henri Becquerel, the discoverer of radioactivity. She is credited with discovering polonium and radium, the former named for Poland. She remains a national heroine there.
During the first world war, Curie established the first military field radiological centres, with small, mobile sandra rose x-ray units that could be used to diagnose injuries. She worked with her 17-year-old daughter Irène on the front in 1914, x-raying wounded soldiers to locate fractures, bullets and shrapnel. Curie also held training courses in the new techniques for medical orderlies and doctors.
Curie received a second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry, in 1911. She was a victim of the element that she used to help others, dying on 4 July 1934 of aplastic anaemia, developed through years of exposure to radiation. She was the first woman to be interred in the Pantheon sandra rose in Paris for her own achievements.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie, sandra rose which also stars André Wilms, Charles Berling, Sabin Tambrea and Samuel Finzi, will shoot in Łódź, Kraków and Łeba in Poland for 20 days next month. Film-makers are also expected to visit Paris, Brussels and Munich.
The biopic sandra rose is believed to be the first aimed at cinemas since the classic 1943 black-and-white Hollywood effort Marie Curie, which starred Greer Garson. The BBC produced a television documentary, The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit Up the World , in 2013.
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