KINOFEST: OPPENHEIMER (OV)

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181 minutes | Drama / Biography | Start: 20.07.2023 | USA 2023

Epic about the US physicist who went down in history as the inventor of the atomic bomb.

With his epic thriller OPPENHEIMER, filmed in IMAX®, screenwriting and directing icon Christopher Nolan (Inception, Tenet) takes his audience into the pulsating paradox of an enigmatic man who must risk the destruction of the world in order to save it.

Starring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer (Peaky Blinders, Inception) and Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place) as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer. Oscar®-winner Matt Damon (The Bourne Conspiracy) portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., head of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey Jr. (Avengers: Endgame) has taken on the role of Lewis Strauss, co-founder of the US Atomic Energy Commission. Academy Award® nominee Florence Pugh (Don't Worry Darling) plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie (Licorice Pizza) plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller and Michael Angarano (This Is Us) plays Robert Serber. In addition, Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbour) can be seen in the role of nuclear physicist Ernest Lawrence

OPPENHEIMER also stars Oscar®-winner Rami Malek (No Time to Die) and reunites Nolan with Oscar®-winner Kenneth Branagh (Belfast) after Tenet. The cast also includes Dane DeHaan (Valerian), Dylan Arnold (Halloween), David Krumholtz (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) and Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises).

The film is based on the book "J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Biography", for which the authors Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The screenplay was written by Christopher Nolan himself, who also acted as producer together with Oscar® nominees Emma Thomas (Dunkirk, Inception) and Charles Roven (American Hustle).

OPPENHEIMER was shot on a combination of IMAX® 65mm and 65mm large-format film and, for the first time ever, partly on IMAX® black-and-white analog film.

Nolan's previous films, including Tenet, Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception and the Dark Knight trilogy, have grossed more than 5 billion dollars worldwide and have been nominated for a total of 36 Oscars®, including twice for Best Picture, and received eleven awards.