The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World

The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World (2025)

2025

Documentary / History

2013-05-03

60 minutes

Over 80 years after her death, Marie Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing - a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip. This multi-layered film reveals the real Marie Curie, an extraordinary woman who fell in love three times, had to survive the pain of loss, and the public humiliation of a doomed love affair. It is a riveting portrait of a tenacious mother and scientist, who opened the door on a whole new realm of physics, which she discovered and named - radioactivity.

David Malone character Himself - Narrator (voice)

Geraldine James character Marie Curie's letters read by

Maria Sklodowska-Curie character Herself (archive footage)

Julie Des Jardins character Herself - Author: 'The Madam Curie Complex'

Patricia Fara character Herself - Clare College, Cambridge

Malgorzata Sobieszczak-Marciniak character Herself - Maria Sklodowska-Curie Museum, Warsaw

Teresa Kaczorowska character Herself - Journalist and Author

Renaud Huynh character Himself - Musée Curie, Paris

Andrea Sella character Himself - University College, London

Hélène Langevin-Joliot character Herself - Marie Curie's Granddaughter

Helena Pycior character Herself - University of Wisconsin

Jean-Luc Pasquier character Himself - Radioprotection Expert