1 00:02:16,140 --> 00:02:19,740 MARIE CURIE AND THE BLUE LIGHT 2 00:02:46,740 --> 00:02:49,380 As you have seen, thorium doesn't exhibit significant radiation. 3 00:02:53,580 --> 00:02:55,620 The emission of a given element which follows a routine 4 00:02:55,620 --> 00:02:57,060 a trajectory can change... 5 00:03:06,060 --> 00:03:06,940 Marie?! 6 00:03:07,980 --> 00:03:09,060 Sit down! 7 00:03:10,180 --> 00:03:11,100 It'll be all right... 8 00:03:11,740 --> 00:03:13,500 André, come here quickly! 9 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:14,820 It'll be all right. 10 00:03:15,420 --> 00:03:17,620 Will it be all right? I don't know... What are we going to do? 11 00:03:17,620 --> 00:03:19,860 - Get me the midwife, now! - Breathe, Marie... 12 00:03:20,860 --> 00:03:23,140 Marie, calm down, just sit down! 13 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:27,700 - Shall we call for help? - Yes, yes! 14 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:29,220 Be quick! 15 00:03:29,220 --> 00:03:30,420 Hurry up! 16 00:03:34,660 --> 00:03:37,780 What about Stockholm then'? When are we going? When can we drive? 17 00:03:37,780 --> 00:03:39,700 It can wait a bit. 18 00:03:40,260 --> 00:03:42,180 It's been a year already, they are asking again and again. 19 00:03:42,180 --> 00:03:44,700 Some American wants to name a racer after me 20 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:46,620 and asks my permission. 21 00:03:46,620 --> 00:03:47,860 Can horses get Nobel Prizes? 22 00:03:47,860 --> 00:03:49,260 No, only men can get it. 23 00:03:49,260 --> 00:03:52,740 Your mother is an exception. She is the first lady who won Nobel. 24 00:03:52,740 --> 00:03:54,060 So I'll be the second. 25 00:03:54,060 --> 00:03:55,740 Of course, why not? 26 00:03:59,220 --> 00:04:00,780 Did I use to be so tiny? 27 00:04:00,780 --> 00:04:02,700 You were, you were. And now watch out... 28 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:04,620 you are the biggest of us all! 29 00:04:04,620 --> 00:04:05,580 Come, let's go! 30 00:04:29,460 --> 00:04:31,980 A car from the Royal Academy will await you 31 00:04:32,020 --> 00:04:33,300 in front of the hotel in an hour. 32 00:04:33,300 --> 00:04:35,220 Thank you, but we prefer to walk. 33 00:04:50,220 --> 00:04:52,140 Why don't we give them back their Nobel Prize? 34 00:04:52,140 --> 00:04:55,260 Having all these journalists on our heads, we can't work. 35 00:04:55,540 --> 00:04:57,060 Hmm? 36 00:04:58,060 --> 00:05:00,300 They steal our precious time, time so needed. 37 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:01,260 Marie... 38 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:04,980 We get crazy, if we will not be able to live as we like. 39 00:05:06,580 --> 00:05:10,420 After Henri Becquerel discovered the special radiating properties of uranium 40 00:05:10,420 --> 00:05:12,780 Madame Curie has shown... 41 00:05:12,780 --> 00:05:16,980 that thorium and its compounds possess the same properties 42 00:05:16,980 --> 00:05:20,940 and called such substances "radioactive". 43 00:05:20,940 --> 00:05:24,900 The experiments on radium lead to the assumption that... 44 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:27,340 certain particles have a velocity 45 00:05:27,340 --> 00:05:29,700 very slightly below that of light. 46 00:05:30,420 --> 00:05:32,340 That might probably modify 47 00:05:32,340 --> 00:05:35,860 the fundamental principle of mechanics. 48 00:05:35,860 --> 00:05:40,420 The consequences for the chemistry are perhaps even more important. 49 00:05:40,420 --> 00:05:45,340 Finally in the biological sciences the rise of radium 50 00:05:45,340 --> 00:05:48,300 could become a very useful ally 51 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:50,100 in the treatment of cancer. 52 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:52,980 The London Times doubts that radium is an element at all. 53 00:05:52,980 --> 00:05:53,940 Quiet, please! 54 00:05:53,940 --> 00:05:55,980 Radium is in no way 55 00:05:56,020 --> 00:05:59,100 a helium and lead compound, as many of our distinguished colleagues pretend. 56 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:01,500 We are about to prove it! 57 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:03,900 Madame Curie and I believe that mankind 58 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:07,060 will derive more good than harm from this new discovery. 59 00:06:07,060 --> 00:06:10,540 Every meaningful research is a gift to humanity, 60 00:06:10,540 --> 00:06:13,260 but as the antique has taught us, 61 00:06:13,260 --> 00:06:15,340 it can instantly turn into Pandora's Box. 62 00:06:15,340 --> 00:06:18,420 The best example are the inventions of Alfred Nobel. 63 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:22,420 His powerful explosives enable performing impressive works, 64 00:06:22,420 --> 00:06:25,740 they are also a terrible means of destruction 65 00:06:25,740 --> 00:06:29,260 in the hands of the great criminals who are leading countries to war. 66 00:06:29,260 --> 00:06:34,380 By accepting this Nobel Prize for physics, we call upon all citizens of Europe 67 00:06:34,380 --> 00:06:35,940 to be vigilant. 68 00:06:35,940 --> 00:06:39,100 It is our duty to work for peace! 69 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:42,420 Madame Curie and I want to pursue our work 70 00:06:42,420 --> 00:06:44,500 with this goal in mind. 71 00:06:51,180 --> 00:06:53,100 Professor Pierre Curie. 72 00:06:54,540 --> 00:06:55,180 And Madame Curie... 73 00:06:55,180 --> 00:06:57,100 It is a great pleasure. 74 00:06:57,100 --> 00:06:59,860 Crown Prince Gustav was disconsolate 75 00:06:59,860 --> 00:07:02,100 that you didn't show yourselves at last year's banquet. 76 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:05,700 If only you knew how much Monsieur Curie and I enjoy missing banquets. 77 00:07:11,140 --> 00:07:12,780 When will they come at last? 78 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:14,940 You are even more impatient than your mom! 79 00:07:14,940 --> 00:07:16,860 Besides, I am hungry! 80 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:18,420 Abracadabra! Here is an apple for you. 81 00:07:18,420 --> 00:07:19,980 Thank you. 82 00:07:20,020 --> 00:07:21,660 Above a certain altitude the air is cleaner 83 00:07:21,660 --> 00:07:23,220 and I can observe better the changes 84 00:07:23,220 --> 00:07:25,380 in the atmosphere's electric charge. 85 00:07:25,380 --> 00:07:27,700 Have you installed your measuring instrument on the Eiffel Tower? 86 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:29,740 It is the highest tower in the world. 87 00:07:29,740 --> 00:07:31,380 - On the top? - On the third floor. 88 00:07:33,980 --> 00:07:35,860 The results are surprising. 89 00:07:38,260 --> 00:07:40,860 We are organizing protests in front of Notre-Dame, 90 00:07:40,860 --> 00:07:42,540 we demand religious freedom... 91 00:07:42,540 --> 00:07:45,980 I have also discovered that in the air there are at least two other kinds of ions. 92 00:07:45,980 --> 00:07:48,420 Ions twice as big as the ones we have known till now. 93 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:50,260 Freedom of religion for everyone! 94 00:07:50,260 --> 00:07:51,180 Thank you. 95 00:07:51,180 --> 00:07:53,340 And there's no freedom for me? 96 00:07:54,580 --> 00:07:56,340 We're demonstrating tomorrow in front of Notre-Dame, 97 00:07:56,340 --> 00:07:57,460 Will you come? 98 00:07:57,460 --> 00:07:59,820 With you, mademoiselle, I would even charge on the Vatican. 99 00:08:02,460 --> 00:08:04,380 What are you studying? 100 00:08:04,740 --> 00:08:07,500 - You have mercy for no girl. - What are you up to? 101 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:09,980 I saw them! There they are! 102 00:08:09,980 --> 00:08:11,940 Dad! 103 00:08:13,140 --> 00:08:13,900 Dad, mum! 104 00:08:13,980 --> 00:08:16,380 Oh, my favorite tornado! 105 00:08:16,380 --> 00:08:17,940 I was so afraid! 106 00:08:17,940 --> 00:08:20,620 - What were you afraid of, darling? - That you never come back! 107 00:08:20,620 --> 00:08:23,020 But here we are. You know well that we always come back. 108 00:08:23,580 --> 00:08:26,100 - Hi, father! - How was the trip? 109 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:28,420 48 hours in a row is no pleasure. 110 00:08:28,420 --> 00:08:30,180 And how was everything with you? 111 00:08:30,180 --> 00:08:32,460 Quiet as usual, no speeches, no vanity fairs. 112 00:08:32,460 --> 00:08:33,940 Nothing but joy. 113 00:08:33,940 --> 00:08:36,420 And this young lady wrapped me around her little finger. 114 00:08:36,420 --> 00:08:38,820 What a relief! 115 00:08:38,820 --> 00:08:40,620 You can't imagine how we missed you. 116 00:08:41,620 --> 00:08:43,860 Have they already delivered the pitchblende, Andre? 117 00:08:43,860 --> 00:08:45,540 - Yes, boss! - It's about time. 118 00:08:56,460 --> 00:08:58,620 Shall we? 119 00:09:02,260 --> 00:09:03,300 Yes? 120 00:09:14,620 --> 00:09:15,660 Hurry up! 121 00:09:18,700 --> 00:09:20,620 After you, Madame. 122 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:51,060 Our radium. It is radiating from inside. 123 00:09:51,060 --> 00:09:53,100 Just like you. 124 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:56,100 A healing matter in a state of inner turmoil. 125 00:09:58,860 --> 00:10:04,420 Either there is some demon in it, or the atom is not indivisible! 126 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:10,860 That would contradict all known theories. 127 00:10:16,180 --> 00:10:18,060 I hope I didn't forget anything. 128 00:10:18,060 --> 00:10:20,100 I love your lists! 129 00:10:22,380 --> 00:10:24,700 - Does it hurt? - No, not at all. 130 00:10:25,260 --> 00:10:28,180 We treated his inoperable tumor with radium bromide, 131 00:10:28,180 --> 00:10:30,900 applied with a rubber-sleeve for two weeks, ten minutes a day. 132 00:10:31,980 --> 00:10:33,900 It already decreased by half. 133 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:35,820 With smaller cartridges 134 00:10:35,820 --> 00:10:38,340 we could measure the dosage of the radium more precisely 135 00:10:38,340 --> 00:10:40,740 and apply its radiation more targeted 136 00:10:40,740 --> 00:10:42,780 to protect the healthy cells. 137 00:10:42,780 --> 00:10:45,780 The best solution would probably be 138 00:10:45,780 --> 00:10:47,940 to inject the radium directly into the cancer cell. 139 00:10:48,820 --> 00:10:50,700 Your name is Iréne, isn't it? 140 00:10:51,980 --> 00:10:53,340 Iréne! 141 00:10:54,220 --> 00:10:55,740 It looks like mum is calling you! 142 00:10:55,740 --> 00:10:57,660 - Good bye, monsieur. - Good bye. 143 00:10:58,180 --> 00:11:00,100 My reverence Madame! 144 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:02,740 - Already back from Stockholm? - Go to your room now. 145 00:11:02,740 --> 00:11:05,580 Gustave Téry, chief editor of "I'Oeuvre". 146 00:11:06,060 --> 00:11:08,580 "We talk aloud what others only think in secret". 147 00:11:08,940 --> 00:11:10,380 Leave my family in peace. 148 00:11:11,580 --> 00:11:14,340 How does it feel to be suddenly so famous? 149 00:11:28,860 --> 00:11:30,820 Did you hear what is going on in Warsaw? 150 00:11:31,140 --> 00:11:33,820 Nationalists robbed the public stock... look. 151 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:38,460 Perhaps your sister won't need your money anymore! 152 00:11:38,460 --> 00:11:40,860 It is time for Poland to be independent again. 153 00:11:41,820 --> 00:11:43,620 One should be able to speak Polish in his country. 154 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:46,260 You should become a politician, madame Skodovska. 155 00:11:46,740 --> 00:11:48,180 Sklodovska! 156 00:11:50,500 --> 00:11:52,420 He behaves as if everything was all right, 157 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:55,780 but during the trip he vomited several times and he didn't admit it. 158 00:11:55,780 --> 00:11:57,540 He's had this supposed influenza for months! 159 00:11:57,540 --> 00:11:59,100 I think it's anemia. 160 00:11:59,740 --> 00:12:00,980 How come? 161 00:12:00,980 --> 00:12:02,700 From your lifestyle. 162 00:12:03,300 --> 00:12:05,940 Don't lie to me, Eugéne. Just tell me the truth. 163 00:12:05,940 --> 00:12:07,140 Whatever this truth is. 164 00:12:07,140 --> 00:12:09,060 Don't worry, I will examine him thoroughly. 165 00:12:10,180 --> 00:12:11,380 Really, stop worrying. 166 00:12:19,300 --> 00:12:21,220 Give me back the medal, give it back to me! 167 00:12:21,220 --> 00:12:22,780 - It is mine! - Give it back! 168 00:12:22,780 --> 00:12:24,700 - I'm better in math than you! - It's not true! 169 00:12:24,980 --> 00:12:26,940 Kids! Stop fighting this instant! 170 00:12:26,940 --> 00:12:28,860 Jean, give me the medal. This is not a toy. 171 00:12:28,860 --> 00:12:31,620 - This is my medal. - Rubbish. Now, give it to me. 172 00:12:31,860 --> 00:12:34,860 - She could lend it to me... - This is not a toy. 173 00:12:35,700 --> 00:12:38,260 Where do you want to isolate pure radium? 174 00:12:38,940 --> 00:12:41,100 I'm fed up with your shabby hangar. 175 00:12:41,100 --> 00:12:43,300 What am I working with two Nobels for? 176 00:12:43,740 --> 00:12:45,180 Honestly? 177 00:12:45,460 --> 00:12:46,860 Well... 178 00:12:47,140 --> 00:12:48,700 Wine? 179 00:12:52,140 --> 00:12:54,100 You want to push cancer research forward. Fine! 180 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:56,500 But please give me a lab that deserves that name. 181 00:12:56,500 --> 00:12:58,660 Pierre has appointment next week at the French Academy 182 00:12:58,660 --> 00:13:00,340 to try and get some funds. 183 00:13:00,340 --> 00:13:01,740 The world gets crazy about radium, 184 00:13:01,740 --> 00:13:03,980 but no one cares about how one finances such a research. 185 00:13:03,980 --> 00:13:07,140 - You should take Marie with you. - I never can say "no" to her. 186 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:10,620 Marie under the Dome of the Academy, that would be something! 187 00:13:10,620 --> 00:13:12,180 If you patented your discovery, 188 00:13:12,180 --> 00:13:13,780 you could afford building your own laboratory. 189 00:13:13,780 --> 00:13:15,780 We're scientists, and no profiteers. 190 00:13:15,780 --> 00:13:17,700 My Paul would deserve more recognition too. 191 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:18,780 Ah, Jeanne... 192 00:13:18,780 --> 00:13:20,740 You play modest, but that's the fact. 193 00:13:20,740 --> 00:13:22,620 We strive for results that could help everyone, 194 00:13:22,620 --> 00:13:24,540 that's what counts for us. 195 00:13:24,540 --> 00:13:26,740 Have you cured the tumor of that patient? 196 00:13:27,340 --> 00:13:28,660 No, not entirely. 197 00:13:28,660 --> 00:13:31,140 Do you understand now why I'm impatient? It's just a beginning! 198 00:13:31,140 --> 00:13:34,260 For being sure of the results, we still need lots of tests and experiments. 199 00:13:34,260 --> 00:13:35,380 Patience, patience, patience! 200 00:13:35,380 --> 00:13:36,940 Here are the three pillars of our method. 201 00:13:36,940 --> 00:13:40,620 - Eve is so sweet, she just fell asleep. - It belongs to Irene now. 202 00:13:40,620 --> 00:13:42,580 The Nobel medal? 203 00:13:42,580 --> 00:13:44,500 She can lose it, it'll land somewhere in the mud. 204 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:47,700 "Nobel Prize lands in the mud". 205 00:13:48,340 --> 00:13:50,100 Sounds like a great headline! 206 00:13:52,780 --> 00:13:54,700 Iréne you put it on back to front. 207 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:58,140 Never mind! Double knot keeps much better. 208 00:13:58,740 --> 00:14:02,700 Especially when it's done by daddy. 209 00:14:04,260 --> 00:14:05,620 Till evening. 210 00:14:05,620 --> 00:14:07,780 Give it to your mum, will you? 211 00:14:08,380 --> 00:14:10,140 I am going, see you in the lab? 212 00:14:15,220 --> 00:14:16,660 Don't forget your umbrella! 213 00:14:17,700 --> 00:14:19,500 What would I do without you? 214 00:14:28,260 --> 00:14:30,180 Now it should keep well. 215 00:14:41,020 --> 00:14:43,500 Gigantic is this begonia of yours. 216 00:14:43,740 --> 00:14:45,980 True. It is growing much faster than the other one. 217 00:14:49,180 --> 00:14:53,260 At least I've managed to control disruptions of our electroscope. 218 00:14:54,580 --> 00:14:56,500 - Really? - Yes. 219 00:15:30,060 --> 00:15:31,500 There was an accident. 220 00:15:34,860 --> 00:15:36,780 On the corner Rue Dauphine. 221 00:15:39,580 --> 00:15:41,820 He wanted to cross the street quickly. 222 00:15:45,660 --> 00:15:46,980 Who? 223 00:15:49,540 --> 00:15:51,420 Must have been deep in his thoughts. 224 00:15:51,420 --> 00:15:53,100 He slipped. 225 00:15:55,980 --> 00:15:57,820 He didn't see the carriage. 226 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:02,580 He is dead? 227 00:19:53,340 --> 00:19:55,260 Oh, professor Amagat? Good morning. 228 00:19:58,620 --> 00:20:00,780 Very modest for a Nobel laureate, isn't it? 229 00:20:00,780 --> 00:20:05,340 But Madame did not forget to invite our minister of education. 230 00:20:06,540 --> 00:20:09,700 He may be useful for her in the future. 231 00:20:53,740 --> 00:20:57,420 Two times six... 2HCI-- 1 HCI times... 232 00:21:49,420 --> 00:21:51,420 Manya, come back to Poland with me. 233 00:21:51,420 --> 00:21:53,700 Without Pierre you will always be a foreigner here! 234 00:21:54,060 --> 00:21:56,260 Pierre would like me to continue our work. 235 00:21:56,260 --> 00:21:58,180 You can do it in Poland as well. 236 00:21:58,180 --> 00:22:00,340 You perfectly know that it is not true. 237 00:22:00,820 --> 00:22:02,380 What kind of future will my daughters have in Poland? 238 00:22:02,380 --> 00:22:04,980 What are you talking about? Poland is at the start of big changes. 239 00:22:05,380 --> 00:22:07,900 Your daughters will be better there than in a country 240 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:10,140 which has until this day not rehabilitated Dreyfus! 241 00:22:11,140 --> 00:22:12,580 Their place is here. 242 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:15,700 You want to stay in France, yes? 243 00:22:15,700 --> 00:22:17,620 I promised him to be always by his side. 244 00:22:17,620 --> 00:22:20,620 I let him go alone. Why am I still alive? 245 00:22:20,620 --> 00:22:22,300 He was such a better person than I am. 246 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:23,940 Manya, it was an accident. 247 00:22:26,140 --> 00:22:28,060 Without Pierre I am nothing! 248 00:22:29,940 --> 00:22:32,860 Iréne, can you pass me your plate? 249 00:22:33,580 --> 00:22:36,060 - Thank you very much. - Iréne, more asparagus? 250 00:22:39,220 --> 00:22:41,100 Kids, I baked some cake! It is still warm. 251 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:42,980 Cake? For me! 252 00:22:57,100 --> 00:22:59,940 Do you intend to work yourself to death? 253 00:23:02,460 --> 00:23:04,380 When I work, he is with me. 254 00:23:04,660 --> 00:23:07,980 Nobody can work for two for ever. You not either. 255 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:14,700 If I can isolate radium in its pure metal form, 256 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:16,620 nobody will doubt its nature. 257 00:23:20,940 --> 00:23:23,340 I'm going to build the radium Institute, Pierre dreamed of. 258 00:23:25,180 --> 00:23:29,700 And make out of the Curie therapy the best method against cancer. 259 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:31,380 Do you know what it means? 260 00:23:31,380 --> 00:23:33,940 Thousands of incurable patients saved by the radiation of this... 261 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:42,940 Your radium might destroy tumors but it also eats up fingers! 262 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:50,700 I'm so afraid to tell Iréne the truth. 263 00:23:55,980 --> 00:23:58,300 You are lying, mum! You are lying! 264 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:03,540 Dad! Dad! 265 00:25:31,980 --> 00:25:37,180 My Pierre. My good, beloved Pierre... 266 00:25:37,180 --> 00:25:40,500 Another day which I was not destined to spend with you. 267 00:25:42,180 --> 00:25:44,700 Our treasures are so little! 268 00:25:46,260 --> 00:25:48,580 Shall I be worthy of you? 269 00:26:00,060 --> 00:26:01,260 He is not here. 270 00:26:01,260 --> 00:26:03,180 He is waiting for you in your dreams. 271 00:26:03,180 --> 00:26:06,180 When you think of him, you will be able to hear his voice, see him. 272 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:10,420 Wait, Iréne. Please. 273 00:26:10,980 --> 00:26:12,580 Do you believe in God? 274 00:26:12,580 --> 00:26:13,980 God has nothing to do with this. 275 00:26:13,980 --> 00:26:17,100 I don't believe any more. God is just a Santa Claus version for adults! 276 00:26:17,580 --> 00:26:19,500 There is something to it! 277 00:26:23,580 --> 00:26:26,820 Grandpa, do you really think I can see Dad in my dreams? 278 00:26:57,700 --> 00:27:00,060 The Sorbonne calls for tenders for Pierre's chair of physics. 279 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:03,420 Do you want to apply? 280 00:27:03,420 --> 00:27:05,620 You know well that there is only one person in the world 281 00:27:05,620 --> 00:27:07,060 who can overtake this chair. 282 00:27:09,820 --> 00:27:12,060 A woman has no chance. 283 00:27:12,060 --> 00:27:14,020 And some one like me is much too expensive for them! 284 00:27:41,460 --> 00:27:44,500 The dean is terribly busy today. 285 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:45,900 What time is he free then? 286 00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:47,380 I can't tell, unfortunately. 287 00:27:51,660 --> 00:27:53,100 I am Marie Curie. 288 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:55,620 I know, Madame. Your husband was a genius scientist. 289 00:27:57,540 --> 00:27:59,860 My husband and I, we shared everything. 290 00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:04,740 We wanted to explore the healing force of radium. 291 00:28:05,980 --> 00:28:08,460 This is even dearer to me today. 292 00:28:08,460 --> 00:28:11,380 That's why we started cooperating with medical researchers. 293 00:28:12,060 --> 00:28:14,500 This issue needs great experience. 294 00:28:15,060 --> 00:28:18,060 Nobody will oppose if you train your husband's successor. 295 00:28:18,660 --> 00:28:21,300 We're about to break through. 296 00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:23,220 I need a laboratory. 297 00:28:23,220 --> 00:28:25,660 No one could be better suited to supervise it. 298 00:28:27,060 --> 00:28:29,580 And if need be, I could take over Pierre's teaching. 299 00:28:30,660 --> 00:28:32,100 If need be? 300 00:28:33,100 --> 00:28:35,740 Madame, this sort of title is not transferable by marriage! 301 00:28:36,980 --> 00:28:38,740 Who is talking about titles here? 302 00:28:39,460 --> 00:28:42,300 I'm just asking for the job, not for titles. 303 00:28:49,540 --> 00:28:53,100 You enjoy an excellent reputation, Professor Langevin. 304 00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:54,980 You have good scientific relations all over Europe. 305 00:28:55,660 --> 00:29:00,300 Shortly, I cannot imagine a better candidate for my projects. 306 00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:02,460 That's also my opinion. 307 00:29:02,460 --> 00:29:06,220 Thank you, gentlemen. Your timing couldn't be better. 308 00:29:06,220 --> 00:29:09,780 Nowadays we make discoveries that abolish old principles of physics. 309 00:29:09,780 --> 00:29:11,700 Not so fast, dear friend. 310 00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:14,100 So far, Mr. Solvay is proposing a debate. 311 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:15,780 The task is quite difficult. 312 00:29:15,780 --> 00:29:18,060 Take your time. Money is not a problem. 313 00:29:18,420 --> 00:29:20,220 Thanks to my patents I have made a fortune. 314 00:29:20,220 --> 00:29:22,140 Please excuse me, I will be right back. 315 00:29:23,260 --> 00:29:25,180 Marie! Wait! Wait! 316 00:29:25,380 --> 00:29:26,980 I'd like to introduce you Mr Ernest Solvay. 317 00:29:26,980 --> 00:29:29,700 Hypocrites all around, it's loathsome. 318 00:29:30,540 --> 00:29:33,060 Is Madame Curie also teaching at the Sorbonne? 319 00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:36,940 The radium might be the latest thing, 320 00:29:36,940 --> 00:29:40,300 but never ever a female professor. 321 00:29:41,700 --> 00:29:45,060 "Malbrough goes to fight in war, nobody knows when he comes back..." 322 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:47,860 Why are you singing? 323 00:29:47,860 --> 00:29:51,180 To scare the sparrows away. I won't have them vandalize our mirabelles! 324 00:29:51,540 --> 00:29:53,100 But there are no plums yet! 325 00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:55,500 It's never too early to do the right thing! 326 00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:03,820 I don't like today's education system at all. 327 00:30:05,860 --> 00:30:08,980 Children must have time for sport, 328 00:30:08,980 --> 00:30:11,580 for developing artistic sensitivity. 329 00:30:11,580 --> 00:30:14,620 - And you know well that... - Stop scratching yourself. 330 00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:19,540 Nothing raises curiosity more than performing experiments. 331 00:30:20,340 --> 00:30:23,500 But no! They force them into hopeless sapping, learning by heart. 332 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:26,100 And forbid girls to take part in any Physics classes. 333 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:27,980 Even when they're as talented as Irene. 334 00:30:27,980 --> 00:30:29,940 And you will find a remedy to all of that? 335 00:30:29,940 --> 00:30:31,180 - Yes, if need be. - Of course. 336 00:30:31,180 --> 00:30:32,820 You'll just wave your magic wand 337 00:30:32,820 --> 00:30:34,740 and everything will be as it should be. 338 00:30:34,740 --> 00:30:36,780 Why should girls be less talented? 339 00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:39,300 Do you have any slick rope? 340 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:41,460 As you wish. 341 00:30:47,260 --> 00:30:48,180 Iréne? 342 00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:52,980 Yes? 343 00:30:52,980 --> 00:30:54,900 - You want to try? - Yes! 344 00:31:00,820 --> 00:31:02,740 Your sister cries differently. 345 00:31:02,740 --> 00:31:05,340 She fights on too many fronts simultaneously. 346 00:31:06,180 --> 00:31:07,980 Finally she will hit her head against the wall. 347 00:31:07,980 --> 00:31:09,940 Catch with your feet! Go on. 348 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:12,940 Not so fast. 349 00:31:12,940 --> 00:31:16,620 The secret of a successful experiment is precision and care. Nothing more. 350 00:31:16,620 --> 00:31:18,540 One should not be in a hurry. Try. 351 00:31:18,540 --> 00:31:20,460 It will surface. 352 00:31:26,860 --> 00:31:28,780 Clean up immediately, please. 353 00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:35,820 The same principle as at sea. 354 00:31:37,140 --> 00:31:37,860 Jean? 355 00:31:37,860 --> 00:31:40,660 Why does the egg float in jar three? 356 00:31:42,660 --> 00:31:44,740 Because salty water is dense and... 357 00:31:44,740 --> 00:31:46,780 The egg has less density than salty water! 358 00:31:46,780 --> 00:31:49,060 And what did Archimedes state? 359 00:31:49,060 --> 00:31:51,300 If an object dips into fluid, 360 00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:53,220 it looses its weight and the buoyant force of this object... 361 00:31:55,140 --> 00:31:57,580 I'll show you something... Many small and wonderful things. 362 00:31:58,620 --> 00:32:00,540 Iréne, come and see! 363 00:32:01,420 --> 00:32:03,340 Here you are, all my magical products. 364 00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:07,140 Forever young thanks to Iradium. The cream with radium 365 00:32:07,140 --> 00:32:08,340 that revives your skin! 366 00:32:08,340 --> 00:32:09,180 Exactly! 367 00:32:09,180 --> 00:32:11,100 - May I open? - No, no, on no account! 368 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:12,660 It's bloody expensive. 369 00:32:12,660 --> 00:32:13,620 "Radiante..." 370 00:32:13,620 --> 00:32:14,580 Yes. 371 00:32:14,580 --> 00:32:16,420 "Radioactive stockings for... 372 00:32:16,420 --> 00:32:18,340 ...always young and beautiful legs." 373 00:32:19,140 --> 00:32:20,380 - Here they are! - For the young! 374 00:32:20,380 --> 00:32:21,420 Young. I am sorry. 375 00:32:21,420 --> 00:32:23,460 "Tho-Radia, a revolutionary remedy for hair growth". 376 00:32:23,460 --> 00:32:24,900 Can't you read? 377 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:26,820 Surely I can. Two, three drops are enough 378 00:32:27,580 --> 00:32:29,940 and the hair grows miraculously, thanks to the wonderful power of radium. 379 00:32:30,420 --> 00:32:33,180 - And for Madame Marie I recommend... - And this is for me! 380 00:32:33,180 --> 00:32:35,820 ...the scientific lipstick for perfect lips! 381 00:32:35,820 --> 00:32:37,060 May I? 382 00:32:38,940 --> 00:32:40,860 - I will give you a bit. - Now my turn! 383 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:42,980 To think that my father thought my discoveries 384 00:32:42,980 --> 00:32:44,460 would be useless! 385 00:32:44,460 --> 00:32:45,980 It stings! 386 00:32:48,820 --> 00:32:50,740 Radium fleece... 387 00:32:59,340 --> 00:33:01,260 I had no idea how childish you could be. 388 00:33:03,220 --> 00:33:05,140 - Good morning! - Good morning! 389 00:33:06,580 --> 00:33:09,060 Isn't it time for math? 390 00:33:09,060 --> 00:33:09,940 No! 391 00:33:09,940 --> 00:33:11,380 We haven't finished yet. 392 00:33:40,860 --> 00:33:44,220 Dear Madame Langevin, you are always a feast for the eyes! 393 00:33:44,460 --> 00:33:46,260 Indeed, your colour. 394 00:33:47,940 --> 00:33:49,260 Madame... 395 00:33:49,260 --> 00:33:50,740 Don't you think it's highest time 396 00:33:50,740 --> 00:33:52,980 to make the merits of your husband known to the world? 397 00:33:52,980 --> 00:33:54,940 I have wanted to write about him for a long time, 398 00:33:54,940 --> 00:33:56,380 but your husband never has time. 399 00:33:56,380 --> 00:33:58,620 When my husband works, he forgets about everything else, 400 00:33:58,620 --> 00:34:00,340 sometimes even about his own wife. 401 00:34:04,620 --> 00:34:08,700 A wife always knows what's best for her husband. 402 00:34:09,660 --> 00:34:11,820 I'll also sit in front, otherwise I won't hear anything. 403 00:34:12,060 --> 00:34:13,380 Sorry. 404 00:34:13,380 --> 00:34:14,460 Thank you. 405 00:34:14,940 --> 00:34:16,260 Actually these seats are... 406 00:34:49,620 --> 00:34:51,100 A foreigner at the Sorbonne... 407 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:53,700 And she believes she'll get such an audience's attention! 408 00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:18,420 As Pierre Curie told you in his last lecture, 409 00:35:19,740 --> 00:35:22,260 the progress made within last decade 410 00:35:22,260 --> 00:35:24,420 in the field of physics turned upside down 411 00:35:24,420 --> 00:35:27,180 our perception of electromagnetism or matter. 412 00:35:27,180 --> 00:35:30,100 As for the new discoveries in the chemistry of radioactive matter, 413 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:32,820 we can only guess. 414 00:35:32,820 --> 00:35:35,700 It is a very special field that I call: 415 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:38,260 "The chemistry of the imponderable". 416 00:35:38,260 --> 00:35:41,700 Till now we managed to isolate only several decigrams of radium salt, 417 00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:44,500 on which we used tons of pitchblende. 418 00:35:45,420 --> 00:35:48,420 I worked up a fractional method of acquisition of pure 419 00:35:48,420 --> 00:35:52,980 radium salts that I share with all interested labs. 420 00:35:53,820 --> 00:35:56,620 Radium has many properties which show powerful results. 421 00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:01,620 Its beams can penetrate even through several centimeters of lead... 422 00:36:06,980 --> 00:36:08,940 Not bad as for a woman, right? 423 00:36:10,660 --> 00:36:12,580 Congratulations, Marie! You showed them! 424 00:36:14,340 --> 00:36:15,820 Pierre would also be proud of you. 425 00:36:15,820 --> 00:36:17,100 Pierre was always proud of Marie, 426 00:36:17,100 --> 00:36:18,660 but he would have hated this circus today! 427 00:36:18,660 --> 00:36:22,500 Marie, how I admire you! I would have died of all the excitement. 428 00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:25,140 - Where are you going? - To the lab. 429 00:36:25,140 --> 00:36:27,580 Now? When we are drinking to your success? 430 00:36:38,340 --> 00:36:39,780 Marie! 431 00:36:45,780 --> 00:36:47,820 Don't you dare to congratulate. 432 00:36:48,780 --> 00:36:49,740 For you! 433 00:36:52,660 --> 00:36:54,180 Your preface? 434 00:36:54,540 --> 00:36:57,580 So we can send the manuscript to the publisher next week? 435 00:36:57,580 --> 00:36:58,860 That's just typical! 436 00:36:58,860 --> 00:37:00,780 You only think what is to be done. 437 00:37:03,180 --> 00:37:05,580 You were able to take this picture? 438 00:37:05,820 --> 00:37:07,620 "Eusapia, the clever magician..." 439 00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:10,380 "...who can make heavy tables fly!" 440 00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:13,300 Pierre wanted to cast light upon her mystery! 441 00:37:13,620 --> 00:37:14,940 Yeah, I know. 442 00:37:16,180 --> 00:37:17,340 Thanks, Paul. 443 00:37:22,380 --> 00:37:24,900 - Go now. Jeanne is looking for you. - Yes. 444 00:37:26,460 --> 00:37:29,100 One more thing: I'll drop my corrections on chapter 4 by next week. 445 00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:30,300 I promise. 446 00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:32,820 If you need anything, just let me know. 447 00:37:36,660 --> 00:37:38,580 Marie, congratulations! 448 00:37:47,580 --> 00:37:50,100 That would contradict all known theories. 449 00:38:43,140 --> 00:38:47,220 Life is trivial matter if you cannot think in pairs! 450 00:38:52,140 --> 00:38:54,660 It's so exciting to explore new ideas together 451 00:38:54,660 --> 00:38:56,860 that no one has yet investigated. 452 00:39:40,860 --> 00:39:44,620 The radioactivity increases, but the percentage of radium 453 00:39:44,620 --> 00:39:46,860 remains constant. 454 00:39:46,860 --> 00:39:49,180 That can't be! 455 00:39:49,180 --> 00:39:51,540 That means you can stop with the fractional crystallization. 456 00:39:53,940 --> 00:39:56,260 Want some? 457 00:39:57,220 --> 00:39:59,620 Eating supports thinking, Madame! 458 00:40:01,900 --> 00:40:03,820 Pierre always knew what to do next! 459 00:40:06,180 --> 00:40:07,980 What's going on with you? 460 00:40:08,820 --> 00:40:10,740 I am getting stupid! 461 00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:14,740 I won't make it by myself! 462 00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:18,980 Right... I am going to a coffee. 463 00:40:29,740 --> 00:40:31,420 - Good morning. - Good morning, André 464 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:33,780 Good morning, Madame. 465 00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:36,820 Good morning. 466 00:40:40,620 --> 00:40:42,300 When can I see the patient? 467 00:40:43,980 --> 00:40:46,420 I don't want to offend you, 468 00:40:46,420 --> 00:40:48,300 but I'd rather meet him alone. 469 00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:50,820 Male patients confide better in men. 470 00:40:54,660 --> 00:40:57,300 - Same dose as usual? - Yes. 471 00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:16,260 Have you managed to sleep a little? 472 00:41:16,260 --> 00:41:17,820 I am the doctor. Go back to bed. 473 00:41:17,820 --> 00:41:20,100 In your condition you cannot take care of the children. 474 00:41:20,340 --> 00:41:23,260 Be a good girl, wake your sister and put the milk on to warm. 475 00:41:23,260 --> 00:41:25,060 I'll be down in a minute. 476 00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:27,460 See? Everything is all right! 477 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:29,460 - For sure? - Yes! 478 00:41:52,980 --> 00:41:54,700 Excuse me... 479 00:41:55,620 --> 00:41:58,980 In order to discover something, you have to know what you're looking for. 480 00:41:59,020 --> 00:42:02,140 What I am trying to say is, that for every new hypothesis, 481 00:42:02,140 --> 00:42:04,540 the simple observation of a phenomenon is not enough. 482 00:42:04,540 --> 00:42:06,540 You also need to figure out previously an explanation. 483 00:42:06,540 --> 00:42:08,220 Are you asking me how new ideas are born? 484 00:42:08,820 --> 00:42:09,900 Yes. 485 00:42:10,900 --> 00:42:13,380 It's a very exciting question, 486 00:42:13,380 --> 00:42:16,260 but it goes far beyond the boundaries of physics. 487 00:42:19,540 --> 00:42:21,180 Like for everything else, 488 00:42:21,180 --> 00:42:23,700 you have to rely on intuition and common sense. 489 00:42:24,700 --> 00:42:27,540 Most scientific discoveries are a mixture 490 00:42:27,540 --> 00:42:29,460 of talent and coincidence. 491 00:42:33,420 --> 00:42:36,780 A good scientist needs a spirit of adventure to coax out the secrets of nature, 492 00:42:36,780 --> 00:42:38,940 and must not be afraid of his own audacity. 493 00:42:38,940 --> 00:42:41,380 Without forgetting about the necessarily methodical procedures. 494 00:42:41,940 --> 00:42:43,500 But don't worry, 495 00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:45,780 there's a spirit of adventure hidden in all of us! 496 00:42:45,780 --> 00:42:49,300 I'd like you to remember that our freedom of mind is indispensable. 497 00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:51,060 Take all measures to secure it. 498 00:42:51,460 --> 00:42:54,460 This congress is very important for the future of science. 499 00:42:55,140 --> 00:42:58,260 I assure you that this man has sincere intentions. 500 00:42:59,340 --> 00:43:02,380 Show me one industrialist that has given the eight-hour day to his workers 501 00:43:02,380 --> 00:43:04,500 without being forced to it by law. 502 00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:06,580 I don't know. 503 00:43:06,580 --> 00:43:09,700 Solvay insists on you to come, which shows his concern! 504 00:43:11,020 --> 00:43:14,460 Indeed, Marie, if one need financial support, 505 00:43:14,460 --> 00:43:17,260 one should not say no to such a generous benefactor. 506 00:43:22,860 --> 00:43:24,060 Well, it's a pity. 507 00:43:25,140 --> 00:43:26,820 I invited Albert Einstein too. 508 00:43:29,020 --> 00:43:29,980 Did he answer? 509 00:43:29,980 --> 00:43:31,500 Come and you will see. 510 00:43:38,220 --> 00:43:41,100 Can you devote me half an hour? 511 00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:42,980 I'd like to show you something. 512 00:43:43,380 --> 00:43:45,060 Certainly. 513 00:43:47,260 --> 00:43:49,140 No, turn off the light. 514 00:43:50,500 --> 00:43:52,260 I can't believe it! Success! 515 00:43:52,260 --> 00:43:54,540 Element number 88. 516 00:43:54,780 --> 00:43:56,740 Melting point by 700 Celsius degrees. 517 00:43:58,500 --> 00:44:00,420 This is it! 518 00:44:00,420 --> 00:44:03,660 One can see it and touch it. 519 00:44:04,380 --> 00:44:06,100 A bit dangerous, right? 520 00:44:06,420 --> 00:44:08,580 As fire was discovered, people burned themselves. 521 00:44:08,980 --> 00:44:12,460 But what would we do today without fire? 522 00:44:20,860 --> 00:44:23,740 But I liked the colors of the radium salts better! 523 00:44:25,860 --> 00:44:27,580 Let's go now. The drugstore closes 524 00:44:27,580 --> 00:44:30,060 I forgot to pick up Eugéne's medicine! 525 00:44:31,140 --> 00:44:33,780 - You cannot stay. - Can't I sleep here? 526 00:44:33,780 --> 00:44:34,380 No way. 527 00:44:35,260 --> 00:44:37,180 Thank you. 528 00:44:44,580 --> 00:44:48,420 Where were you? We tried to lift him up, but he is too heavy! 529 00:44:53,220 --> 00:44:55,860 - He fell down, all of a sudden. - Eugéne, dear God! 530 00:44:57,340 --> 00:45:00,900 - We must take you to the hospital! - Come. Dance with me. 531 00:45:00,900 --> 00:45:02,820 "Merry fowler I am... 532 00:45:02,820 --> 00:45:06,820 ...known in all the country, to old and young. All around the world." 533 00:45:35,500 --> 00:45:37,380 Litre... litre... 534 00:45:39,780 --> 00:45:40,540 Thank you. 535 00:45:41,260 --> 00:45:42,540 Litre of oil... 536 00:45:46,420 --> 00:45:48,340 For you. This will help you to get organized. 537 00:45:54,180 --> 00:45:56,100 I am already doing all of this. 538 00:45:58,060 --> 00:46:00,100 I am proud of you, my daughter. 539 00:46:19,860 --> 00:46:23,620 For our next lesson, please revise Binomial Distribution... 540 00:46:27,980 --> 00:46:29,700 Sorry to be late! 541 00:46:29,940 --> 00:46:32,460 No problem. Want some tea? 542 00:46:32,460 --> 00:46:34,420 Yes, please. 543 00:46:34,900 --> 00:46:37,540 Have a nice day. See you, professor Langevin. 544 00:46:41,100 --> 00:46:42,980 - André is not here? - Not yet. 545 00:46:47,460 --> 00:46:49,380 - Good morning. - Good morning. 546 00:46:49,900 --> 00:46:52,860 - How is Eugéne? - Not so good. 547 00:46:55,180 --> 00:46:57,180 I am already late. 548 00:46:58,620 --> 00:47:00,780 So you are covering for her now? 549 00:47:00,780 --> 00:47:02,700 It can't go on like this! 550 00:47:02,700 --> 00:47:04,620 Next year I send the children to normal school in Sceaux. 551 00:47:04,620 --> 00:47:06,780 But we agreed that this school cooperative 552 00:47:06,780 --> 00:47:08,620 was the best for our kids! 553 00:47:09,180 --> 00:47:11,380 Of course, but I didn't know how far you would get into it. 554 00:47:11,380 --> 00:47:12,540 She is exploiting you! 555 00:47:12,540 --> 00:47:14,100 Rubbish, we work together! 556 00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:16,420 Naturally... like all the rest... 557 00:47:16,420 --> 00:47:18,340 living in your own world... you intellectuals 558 00:47:18,340 --> 00:47:19,740 think that you know best! 559 00:47:19,740 --> 00:47:21,660 Let's get out of here... 560 00:47:23,020 --> 00:47:25,180 She may be famous scientist, but she doesn't have a clue 561 00:47:25,180 --> 00:47:26,860 about the things of real life! 562 00:47:32,700 --> 00:47:34,500 Don't bother. 563 00:48:00,940 --> 00:48:03,700 Sing! I don't want the birds to eat grandpa's wild plums! 564 00:48:14,220 --> 00:48:16,620 I saw in the program that Max Planck is going to talk 565 00:48:16,620 --> 00:48:18,900 about the contradictions of radiation theory. 566 00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:21,420 It's a pity we can't present our spectral images of Thoriums X. 567 00:48:26,940 --> 00:48:28,380 Did you see? 568 00:48:28,380 --> 00:48:31,620 - Right, I am jumping into the water. - Come on, you will catch a cold. 569 00:48:33,460 --> 00:48:35,980 It's cold, but I can't help it... 570 00:48:36,940 --> 00:48:39,420 He got mad. The water is too cold... 571 00:48:42,300 --> 00:48:43,380 It is! 572 00:48:44,700 --> 00:48:45,820 Marie! 573 00:48:48,100 --> 00:48:50,620 Albert insists on presentation. 574 00:48:50,940 --> 00:48:53,100 Albert Einstein, Marie Curie. 575 00:48:53,100 --> 00:48:55,860 Your theory of the elementary particles was very inspiring for me. 576 00:48:55,860 --> 00:48:57,780 Do you know why I agreed to take part 577 00:48:57,780 --> 00:48:59,220 in this congress? 578 00:48:59,940 --> 00:49:03,220 Only to discuss with you some of my ideas. 579 00:49:04,060 --> 00:49:07,180 Albert thinks you are the most intelligent woman he ever met. 580 00:49:07,900 --> 00:49:09,820 Well, the competition is rather limited. 581 00:49:09,820 --> 00:49:11,580 Does that scare you? 582 00:49:12,420 --> 00:49:13,260 Of course. 583 00:49:13,260 --> 00:49:14,700 You're the best under the women. 584 00:49:14,700 --> 00:49:16,380 Amongst men as well. 585 00:49:21,100 --> 00:49:22,060 I love fresh air. 586 00:49:22,060 --> 00:49:24,300 Walking stirs up thinking, right? 587 00:49:24,300 --> 00:49:26,220 Oh yes, and the sea air. 588 00:49:26,220 --> 00:49:28,860 It's very brave, the postulation of the existence of quanta of light. 589 00:49:28,860 --> 00:49:30,980 Without risk there wouldn't be any progress in physics. 590 00:49:31,740 --> 00:49:33,660 Splendid your "Treaty on Radioactivity"! 591 00:49:33,660 --> 00:49:35,580 Madame Curie! 592 00:49:36,460 --> 00:49:38,700 Without doubt a tremendous piece of work! 593 00:49:38,700 --> 00:49:40,860 But at the pace science is progressing these days, 594 00:49:40,860 --> 00:49:42,460 aren't you afraid that it'll be soon outdated? 595 00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:44,940 You look like someone who is afraid of missing something. 596 00:49:45,180 --> 00:49:46,300 I always take notes. 597 00:49:46,300 --> 00:49:48,220 My note book is my alter ego, mister Einstein. 598 00:49:48,940 --> 00:49:50,860 You never know, a new idea could pop up anywhere. 599 00:49:50,860 --> 00:49:52,780 You certainly know what I mean? 600 00:49:54,060 --> 00:49:56,340 No, I have very seldom "a new idea". 601 00:49:58,860 --> 00:50:01,260 Madame Curie can laugh!? 602 00:50:01,260 --> 00:50:04,260 You have no idea how the magic of the smile on your face works! 603 00:50:04,740 --> 00:50:06,460 I know! Write. 604 00:50:07,540 --> 00:50:09,580 Unusual discovery: 605 00:50:09,580 --> 00:50:11,940 "Madame Curie is able to laugh". 606 00:50:16,660 --> 00:50:19,860 Currently it seems that the key to radioactivity 607 00:50:19,860 --> 00:50:22,420 is to be found in the mere nature of the atom. 608 00:50:22,420 --> 00:50:24,940 I can even say that it has its origins 609 00:50:24,940 --> 00:50:27,540 in regions which are so deep inside the atom 610 00:50:28,420 --> 00:50:30,340 that you can only have access to them 611 00:50:30,340 --> 00:50:33,660 when an atomic explosion occurs. 612 00:50:34,540 --> 00:50:37,140 Gentlemen, I hope that our research 613 00:50:37,140 --> 00:50:39,780 will only serve peaceful purposes. 614 00:50:40,180 --> 00:50:43,140 Just like radium cancer therapy, which already saved many people. 615 00:50:43,980 --> 00:50:46,380 He who, like us, is interested in the origins of life, 616 00:50:47,220 --> 00:50:49,140 must protect that life at any price. 617 00:50:49,140 --> 00:50:52,740 Altruism and integrity are essential elements of our work. 618 00:50:53,460 --> 00:50:55,380 Gentlemen, thank you for your attention. 619 00:50:57,300 --> 00:50:58,300 Thank you very much, Madame Curie. 620 00:51:00,540 --> 00:51:02,100 I fully agree with you. 621 00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:04,980 Physicists like ourselves work with enthusiasm 622 00:51:05,980 --> 00:51:08,580 to unearth the mysteries of the universe. 623 00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:11,460 But from a global point of view, 624 00:51:11,460 --> 00:51:13,980 philosophers will have the final word. 625 00:51:15,300 --> 00:51:17,220 I am convinced that this meeting 626 00:51:17,220 --> 00:51:20,820 will play a remarkable role in the history of science. 627 00:51:22,140 --> 00:51:24,180 Will it soon be possible to unite 628 00:51:24,180 --> 00:51:26,500 radioactivity, quantum and gravitation theories 629 00:51:26,500 --> 00:51:30,060 in a new theory of physics and chemistry? 630 00:51:30,980 --> 00:51:35,340 Madame, Gentlemen, I am counting on you, our work continues. 631 00:51:43,380 --> 00:51:47,140 This woman is ice cold, 632 00:51:47,140 --> 00:51:49,500 but... fuckable. 633 00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:52,500 Your wording is as low level as your researches, professor. 634 00:51:53,700 --> 00:51:55,860 The radiated warmth comes from the kinetic energy 635 00:51:55,860 --> 00:51:57,780 of the Beta- and Gamma rays. 636 00:51:59,220 --> 00:52:01,140 You should apply your calculations to 637 00:52:01,140 --> 00:52:03,060 one single electron in a magnetic field. 638 00:52:04,300 --> 00:52:06,660 But assuming that the emission of the energy particle 639 00:52:06,660 --> 00:52:09,540 is spontaneous, means Maxwell's equation is no longer valid. 640 00:52:09,540 --> 00:52:11,700 Right! We would have to prove that the quantum hypotheses 641 00:52:11,700 --> 00:52:12,980 is a theory in itself. 642 00:52:12,980 --> 00:52:16,740 For that, we must first prove the equivalence of all systems of reference. 643 00:52:16,740 --> 00:52:20,740 And how should we decide on which principles we can retain? 644 00:52:21,300 --> 00:52:23,940 That's the most important question! 645 00:52:24,540 --> 00:52:26,700 That was a compliment. 646 00:52:28,540 --> 00:52:30,340 I wonder why we always 647 00:52:30,340 --> 00:52:32,940 have to take our work so damn seriously. 648 00:52:33,980 --> 00:52:37,500 Who are we doing it for? For the love of mankind? 649 00:52:37,500 --> 00:52:40,660 - Aren't you doing it for the posterity? - What about you?! 650 00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:44,020 Fine! I am a real bore with glasses... 651 00:52:44,620 --> 00:52:47,220 Well, without glasses, but a bore nonetheless! 652 00:52:48,580 --> 00:52:51,700 - Come with us to eat? - Oh, yes. I am hungry too. 653 00:53:23,100 --> 00:53:24,660 We are going to miss the dinner! 654 00:53:25,140 --> 00:53:27,700 Still hungry? After all we swallowed today? 655 00:53:30,420 --> 00:53:32,340 I'm always hungry. 656 00:53:41,940 --> 00:53:43,500 Are you glad to be here? 657 00:53:47,140 --> 00:53:49,180 The reports were very interesting. 658 00:53:50,820 --> 00:53:55,620 - And Einstein is... - Albert - A Curie admirer! 659 00:53:59,860 --> 00:54:01,660 What? 660 00:54:01,660 --> 00:54:04,420 Nothing. You make me laugh. 661 00:54:11,380 --> 00:54:12,900 Shall we go swimming? 662 00:54:12,900 --> 00:54:14,380 - Now? - Yes. 663 00:54:38,700 --> 00:54:40,780 It's ice cold! 664 00:54:42,060 --> 00:54:43,620 It's awful! 665 00:54:48,980 --> 00:54:51,820 - I can't feel my heart anymore! - Well, that's a shame! 666 00:55:33,980 --> 00:55:35,940 Dear Madame, Gentlemen... 667 00:55:40,980 --> 00:55:44,220 - Wait, André... allow me. - Welcome. 668 00:55:53,740 --> 00:55:56,220 Your statements on quanta are very brave... 669 00:55:56,220 --> 00:55:56,860 Thank you. 670 00:55:56,860 --> 00:55:58,140 ...but not complete. 671 00:55:58,140 --> 00:56:00,180 Here you are. 672 00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:03,540 Maybe this reading will inspire you. 673 00:56:08,500 --> 00:56:11,340 So I wish you a nice afternoon. And perseverance, ladies. 674 00:56:12,980 --> 00:56:14,700 Goodbye. 675 00:56:16,260 --> 00:56:19,540 - What happened? - Are you ashamed of me? 676 00:56:20,020 --> 00:56:21,940 What are you talking about? 677 00:56:23,620 --> 00:56:26,100 You came all the way to tell such foolishness. 678 00:56:29,460 --> 00:56:31,980 And if I wanted to talk with you about your work? 679 00:56:32,380 --> 00:56:34,300 You are very welcome. What exactly? 680 00:56:34,300 --> 00:56:36,900 Maybe about "Kinetic theory of magnetism and magnetons"? 681 00:56:40,980 --> 00:56:44,220 20.000 franks. They offer you 20.000 per year 682 00:56:44,220 --> 00:56:46,780 and you reject the offer without consulting me?! 683 00:56:46,780 --> 00:56:49,620 I don't want to work in industry. I'm a scientist, not a flunky! 684 00:56:50,460 --> 00:56:52,380 Besides it's none of your business. 685 00:56:52,380 --> 00:56:54,780 So if you allow me, my students are waiting. 686 00:56:56,820 --> 00:56:59,700 I cook twice a day for six people. I work hard day and night. 687 00:56:59,700 --> 00:57:02,340 All alone, as we cannot afford a maid. 688 00:57:02,940 --> 00:57:04,860 I sew clothes myself, 689 00:57:04,860 --> 00:57:07,900 using second hand rags. And you tell me it's none of my business?! 690 00:57:07,900 --> 00:57:11,220 Ah yes, you are a scientist, that doesn't interest you! 691 00:57:11,580 --> 00:57:13,500 Don't forget you are also a father. 692 00:57:13,500 --> 00:57:15,060 Stop it! The kids are fine! 693 00:57:15,060 --> 00:57:17,100 Whose merit is it? Whose? 694 00:57:17,100 --> 00:57:18,980 Leave me alone! 695 00:57:24,300 --> 00:57:26,700 Get out of here, Jeanne. You are of no use. 696 00:57:28,740 --> 00:57:31,540 Of course. Go on living on with your head up in the sky. 697 00:57:31,540 --> 00:57:34,260 Your children and I have to survive in the real world! 698 00:57:40,860 --> 00:57:41,700 Jeanne? 699 00:57:43,500 --> 00:57:44,940 Come back tomorrow. 700 00:57:58,500 --> 00:57:59,580 Madame Curie. 701 00:58:06,300 --> 00:58:08,220 - Paul! - Come with me. 702 00:58:14,700 --> 00:58:17,860 Want some coffee? A glass of wine perhaps? 703 00:58:20,140 --> 00:58:22,060 - Do you have a glass of water? - Yes. 704 00:58:31,420 --> 00:58:33,340 - Thanks. - Welcome. 705 00:58:40,140 --> 00:58:44,020 - So, this is your hideaway. - Yes. For slightly above a year now. 706 00:58:44,860 --> 00:58:47,220 I would have gone crazy otherwise. 707 00:59:44,620 --> 00:59:47,260 Mania. 708 00:59:51,780 --> 00:59:55,740 How smooth is your skin, Mania. 709 00:59:56,580 --> 00:59:58,500 Stay a bit longer. 710 01:00:07,140 --> 01:00:09,580 I never thought I would be capable of that anymore. 711 01:00:11,100 --> 01:00:12,540 Of what? 712 01:00:13,260 --> 01:00:14,460 Of intimacy. 713 01:00:16,500 --> 01:00:17,580 With a stranger. 714 01:00:19,860 --> 01:00:22,260 Am I a stranger? 715 01:00:23,380 --> 01:00:25,300 It's beautiful what you write about Pierre. 716 01:02:42,060 --> 01:02:44,140 The piano must be tuned. 717 01:02:44,140 --> 01:02:46,060 Oh, a beam of sunlight! 718 01:02:53,380 --> 01:02:56,740 - What? Too frivolous? - Not at all! On the contrary. 719 01:02:56,740 --> 01:02:58,660 You are beaming. 720 01:02:59,860 --> 01:03:03,300 Stay a little more with us. Don't go back to Poland. 721 01:03:03,300 --> 01:03:05,860 Do you really still need me? 722 01:03:06,580 --> 01:03:09,060 Everything is nicer if you're here. 723 01:03:09,060 --> 01:03:12,700 How to calculate a square root of the polynomial? 724 01:03:13,620 --> 01:03:14,580 I forgot the rule. 725 01:03:16,140 --> 01:03:17,380 It's too complicated for me. 726 01:03:18,980 --> 01:03:20,460 I'll show you. 727 01:03:28,860 --> 01:03:31,500 Your lack of concern terrifies me. 728 01:03:31,500 --> 01:03:32,940 Why? 729 01:03:32,940 --> 01:03:35,140 A married man, Marie. 730 01:03:43,540 --> 01:03:46,620 Paul is unhappy with Jeanne. Everybody knows about it. 731 01:03:46,620 --> 01:03:48,220 Don't be naive. 732 01:03:48,220 --> 01:03:50,140 - Paul will never be Pierre. - I know! 733 01:03:50,140 --> 01:03:52,860 You know nothing about the suffering of a betrayed woman! 734 01:03:56,580 --> 01:04:00,820 Pierre applied twice, before they accepted him. 735 01:04:00,820 --> 01:04:02,620 You will know how to convince them. 736 01:04:02,620 --> 01:04:04,300 Come back to reality! 737 01:04:04,300 --> 01:04:06,540 They'll never accept a dirty Pole in the French Academy! 738 01:04:06,540 --> 01:04:09,900 You have done for France much more than all those so called patriots together! 739 01:04:09,900 --> 01:04:12,980 All these behind-the-scenes political intrigues, 740 01:04:14,860 --> 01:04:16,780 I am not made for this. 741 01:04:21,780 --> 01:04:23,940 Madame Curie? 742 01:04:24,820 --> 01:04:29,140 This letter and flowers I have to deliver to your very hands. 743 01:04:30,460 --> 01:04:31,860 How beautiful. 744 01:04:31,860 --> 01:04:34,540 - Yes. Have a nice day. - Thanks! 745 01:04:49,140 --> 01:04:51,540 You will succeed, if you confront them. 746 01:04:53,700 --> 01:04:55,180 That's for sure. 747 01:05:22,420 --> 01:05:24,340 Hmm, delicious! 748 01:05:27,540 --> 01:05:29,460 Enough, enough about work. 749 01:05:32,100 --> 01:05:33,100 Try. 750 01:05:40,660 --> 01:05:42,060 Not bad... 751 01:05:42,980 --> 01:05:45,340 And here I have wild plums from my garden. 752 01:05:50,820 --> 01:05:53,100 Yummy... Very much. 753 01:05:53,820 --> 01:05:55,860 It will perfectly combine with Camembert. 754 01:06:01,140 --> 01:06:03,060 Here you are. 755 01:06:04,980 --> 01:06:07,420 Do you cook for your kids too? 756 01:06:09,060 --> 01:06:11,460 My kids prefer simpler food. 757 01:06:13,140 --> 01:06:16,420 It would be great if we could go and have a picnic all together. 758 01:06:19,660 --> 01:06:20,940 I love you... 759 01:06:23,340 --> 01:06:26,700 My beaming radium queen. 760 01:06:29,140 --> 01:06:31,620 And soon the first woman in French Academy of Science. 761 01:06:32,740 --> 01:06:35,260 And this is building up your vanity! 762 01:06:35,260 --> 01:06:37,860 You have turned heads of so many ladies that the only trick 763 01:06:37,860 --> 01:06:39,780 to make myself noticeable is the Academy of Science. 764 01:06:53,940 --> 01:06:55,860 Are you coming back to your Polish whore? 765 01:06:56,260 --> 01:06:59,140 - Stop it, you will wake up the children. - The children are at Perrins! 766 01:06:59,140 --> 01:07:02,100 I could scream out my lungs: that woman is destroying my family! 767 01:07:03,420 --> 01:07:05,940 Your family? You are just destroying it yourself. 768 01:07:06,300 --> 01:07:09,060 You lying, repulsive coward! 769 01:07:09,660 --> 01:07:12,980 How dare you, Paul, to come back all messed up! 770 01:07:12,980 --> 01:07:13,660 Paul! 771 01:07:13,660 --> 01:07:14,580 What a waste. 772 01:07:18,980 --> 01:07:19,620 Look at me! 773 01:07:19,620 --> 01:07:21,540 I have had enough! 774 01:07:22,500 --> 01:07:23,980 I... 775 01:07:23,980 --> 01:07:24,780 Look at me. 776 01:07:26,340 --> 01:07:27,660 Go to sleep! 777 01:07:29,700 --> 01:07:31,620 Paul! No! 778 01:07:56,620 --> 01:07:59,780 Your candidacy is a great honor for the Academy. 779 01:07:59,780 --> 01:08:03,860 With the Curie therapy you can heal an early discovered cancer. 780 01:08:05,700 --> 01:08:08,420 But the objective is to heal all of the patients. 781 01:08:08,420 --> 01:08:11,420 I could be so much more efficient within an Institute of Radium 782 01:08:11,420 --> 01:08:14,420 where researchers would work side by side with doctors. 783 01:08:15,540 --> 01:08:17,780 You will get your institute, Madame. Sure. 784 01:08:17,780 --> 01:08:20,420 Your rival, Monsieur Branly, 785 01:08:20,420 --> 01:08:22,340 can't hold a candle to you 786 01:08:24,060 --> 01:08:26,900 in terms of international reputation. He operates... 787 01:08:26,900 --> 01:08:28,820 Can I count on your support then? 788 01:08:30,300 --> 01:08:31,700 May I? 789 01:08:31,700 --> 01:08:38,060 Although emancipation lures us into unknown realms, 790 01:08:38,060 --> 01:08:42,980 I can hardly imagine offering you a cigar. 791 01:08:48,420 --> 01:08:51,180 A woman like you has the world at her feet. 792 01:08:58,220 --> 01:09:01,740 Have I already shown you my Chinese room? 793 01:09:01,740 --> 01:09:04,620 It used to belong to Count von Satur. 794 01:09:05,780 --> 01:09:07,700 Would you like to? - It's a real treasure. 795 01:09:15,620 --> 01:09:17,540 Are you coming from Rue Banquier? 796 01:09:24,660 --> 01:09:26,780 Paris is a village, my dear. 797 01:09:28,380 --> 01:09:30,980 Forgive me, I've had a long day. 798 01:09:30,980 --> 01:09:32,660 Don't play the innocent! 799 01:09:34,260 --> 01:09:36,180 It's not me that is your problem. 800 01:09:36,980 --> 01:09:39,500 I was there for you when Pierre died, 801 01:09:39,500 --> 01:09:43,340 I cared for your kids as if they were my own. Is that the gratitude I get? 802 01:09:43,340 --> 01:09:46,220 - I will do the same for your children. - Don't you dare to talk about my children! 803 01:09:46,220 --> 01:09:47,940 You've lost all trace of decency! 804 01:09:47,940 --> 01:09:48,980 Look at yourself! 805 01:09:49,460 --> 01:09:51,980 Even dressed in silk, you are nothing but a miserable laboratory rat! 806 01:09:52,220 --> 01:09:53,660 Who cares what you think... 807 01:09:54,260 --> 01:09:56,580 You are not the first to be seduced! 808 01:09:56,580 --> 01:09:59,220 And you won't be the last. But he always comes back to me! 809 01:10:00,420 --> 01:10:02,900 Paul is my life! 810 01:10:03,660 --> 01:10:06,140 I'll kill you, if you take him away from me! 811 01:10:23,420 --> 01:10:25,340 Marie, it's me! It's me! 812 01:10:30,660 --> 01:10:32,220 What happened? 813 01:10:32,220 --> 01:10:35,700 Nothing, I hit myself, careless stupid. Must have been distracted. 814 01:10:40,260 --> 01:10:41,940 You smell divine. 815 01:10:47,340 --> 01:10:49,340 Jeanne threatened me with a knife. 816 01:10:49,860 --> 01:10:51,780 Oh, no! Damn it! 817 01:10:53,340 --> 01:10:55,700 She's so often suspected me, calling me all kinds of names, 818 01:10:56,180 --> 01:10:58,100 and two days later she's forgotten it all! 819 01:11:07,820 --> 01:11:09,020 What you are to me 820 01:11:10,220 --> 01:11:12,140 no other woman can ever be. 821 01:11:36,180 --> 01:11:38,580 You don't have to be afraid of Jeanne. 822 01:11:40,740 --> 01:11:42,620 I am not afraid of your wife. 823 01:11:45,540 --> 01:11:48,620 I am not sure if I understand correctly your expectations. 824 01:11:50,820 --> 01:11:53,340 Just write the truth. 825 01:11:53,340 --> 01:11:56,820 Aren't you the one who says loud what others prefer to hide? 826 01:11:57,300 --> 01:11:59,340 Why should I believe you? 827 01:12:00,180 --> 01:12:02,540 A mother of four can depend on her instincts. 828 01:12:03,380 --> 01:12:05,300 Wounded feelings are very bad advisors. 829 01:12:06,020 --> 01:12:07,940 Especially, if it comes to a public person. 830 01:12:07,940 --> 01:12:10,980 Don't you think that the French people will want to know that the State is about 831 01:12:10,980 --> 01:12:13,860 to bestow the greatest honors onto an adulterous woman? 832 01:12:14,420 --> 01:12:16,700 - A Jewish adulteress. - Jewish? 833 01:12:16,700 --> 01:12:18,980 She is not Jewish, as far as I know. If you want to fight, 834 01:12:18,980 --> 01:12:22,700 you must offer a bit more than her supposed Jewish roots. 835 01:12:23,540 --> 01:12:25,460 We are deeply grateful, Madame. 836 01:12:26,220 --> 01:12:30,780 Thanks to Mr. Solvay's and your help we can at last equip our laboratory. 837 01:12:30,780 --> 01:12:33,020 Solvay is a great supporter of the Curie therapy. 838 01:12:33,660 --> 01:12:35,420 And so am I. 839 01:12:35,780 --> 01:12:37,700 Flowers seem to like you. 840 01:12:37,700 --> 01:12:40,140 - Thank you. - See you next Tuesday! 841 01:12:43,380 --> 01:12:46,260 Antoine, the new applicators will arrive next week. 842 01:12:46,260 --> 01:12:47,220 Fantastic. 843 01:13:02,820 --> 01:13:04,740 The structure has vividly changed. 844 01:13:04,740 --> 01:13:08,300 How can you tell about radioactivity as if it was some trifle? 845 01:13:08,300 --> 01:13:10,460 We all know perfectly that Madame Curie 846 01:13:10,460 --> 01:13:13,140 could never have come to such results on her own! 847 01:13:13,740 --> 01:13:16,100 No woman could have. 848 01:13:16,100 --> 01:13:17,420 This woman is a visionary! 849 01:13:17,420 --> 01:13:21,140 Excessively ambitious is more appropriate. 850 01:13:21,740 --> 01:13:25,100 What has she done since her husband died? 851 01:13:25,380 --> 01:13:29,300 She has only published results based in their joint work. 852 01:13:29,300 --> 01:13:32,660 She will see to it that the name Pierre Curie 853 01:13:32,660 --> 01:13:34,580 is completely forgotten. 854 01:13:34,580 --> 01:13:37,820 Women now hunger for fame and fortune as well. 855 01:13:37,820 --> 01:13:41,060 Which Madame and her deceased husband have had more than enough! 856 01:13:41,060 --> 01:13:41,980 Did you read this? 857 01:13:42,020 --> 01:13:44,420 What she achieved for the research against cancer 858 01:13:44,420 --> 01:13:46,340 is unique in the world! 859 01:13:46,340 --> 01:13:49,380 A seat in the Academy is not hereditary! 860 01:13:49,380 --> 01:13:52,260 Do you want your grandchildren to ask you 861 01:13:52,260 --> 01:13:56,780 why you weakened in front of a woman? 862 01:13:58,820 --> 01:14:00,860 Quiet, gentlemen! 863 01:14:02,340 --> 01:14:04,260 We can proceed to vote. 864 01:14:04,460 --> 01:14:06,380 I remind you that a simple majority wins. 865 01:14:06,380 --> 01:14:08,220 I can count on you? 866 01:14:08,220 --> 01:14:10,820 Naturally. May she give her candidacy in London 867 01:14:10,820 --> 01:14:12,540 - she is such a genius. 868 01:14:12,980 --> 01:14:14,900 Or go straight back to Warsaw! 869 01:14:14,900 --> 01:14:16,820 Her choice. 870 01:14:17,180 --> 01:14:23,300 Gentlemen, this is a historical opportunity. Don't miss it! 871 01:14:24,860 --> 01:14:26,780 Bravo, very eloquent. 872 01:14:43,460 --> 01:14:45,380 Madame Curie: twenty eight, 873 01:14:45,380 --> 01:14:48,540 Monsieur Branly: thirty. 874 01:14:49,100 --> 01:14:52,340 I'd have been delighted to give my vote to you, but... 875 01:15:04,100 --> 01:15:06,660 I prefer not to think how much time I wasted on this. 876 01:15:07,580 --> 01:15:09,980 - Can you pick up Iréne? - Of course. And you? 877 01:15:09,980 --> 01:15:11,900 - Where are you going? - See you at home. 878 01:15:12,660 --> 01:15:14,580 Mania! 879 01:15:16,500 --> 01:15:18,420 You don't know how sorry I am, Marie. 880 01:15:18,420 --> 01:15:21,060 - Where are our letters? - What? 881 01:15:25,380 --> 01:15:27,260 Jeanne knows that we meet here. 882 01:15:27,260 --> 01:15:29,460 Are you sure that you did not hide them in some other place? 883 01:15:29,460 --> 01:15:30,900 What are you going to do now? 884 01:15:31,980 --> 01:15:34,500 - I'll get them back. - And that's it'? 885 01:15:36,020 --> 01:15:38,100 What else are you expecting? 886 01:15:39,740 --> 01:15:41,660 Is it my fault? 887 01:15:41,660 --> 01:15:42,980 You always leave yours keys everywhere. 888 01:15:42,980 --> 01:15:45,380 Even if Jeanne knows that we meet here, I would never think that... 889 01:15:45,380 --> 01:15:47,460 Stop it, it's pathetic! 890 01:15:47,460 --> 01:15:48,740 Wait! Marie. 891 01:15:48,740 --> 01:15:50,300 Marie. I'll talk to her. I'll get our letters back... 892 01:15:50,300 --> 01:15:52,820 I am sick of thinking that she interfered in our intimacy. 893 01:15:53,420 --> 01:15:55,340 We both knew what we were going into. 894 01:15:57,500 --> 01:15:59,420 Did we? Really? 895 01:16:00,380 --> 01:16:02,300 Marie! Marie! 896 01:16:04,380 --> 01:16:07,580 Where were you? Hurry up, we have a visitor. 897 01:16:07,580 --> 01:16:09,500 - At this hour? - Come here at last, Mania. 898 01:16:18,980 --> 01:16:21,740 Allow me to introduce myself, August Gyldenstolpe: 899 01:16:21,740 --> 01:16:24,060 Swedish ambassador to France. 900 01:16:24,060 --> 01:16:26,940 I have belonged for a long time to the circle of your greatest admirers. 901 01:16:26,940 --> 01:16:30,140 And today I have the honour of presenting you some wonderful news. 902 01:16:30,140 --> 01:16:34,460 The Nobel Committee decided to award you with this years's Prize for chemistry. 903 01:16:34,460 --> 01:16:38,060 Marie! Nobody until now has been awarded Nobel twice! 904 01:16:38,060 --> 01:16:39,620 Nobody! 905 01:16:42,620 --> 01:16:44,540 You are the first one! 906 01:16:45,620 --> 01:16:47,900 Will you forgive me. 907 01:16:50,060 --> 01:16:52,700 I must share the news with my daughters immediately. 908 01:16:52,700 --> 01:16:54,620 Of course. 909 01:17:15,180 --> 01:17:17,780 Mum? There are journalists waiting in front of the house. 910 01:17:17,780 --> 01:17:19,700 How can they know so quickly? 911 01:17:30,140 --> 01:17:32,060 Dress up. I'll be in a minute. 912 01:17:43,700 --> 01:17:47,580 Now they are making a Jew out of you. 913 01:17:48,260 --> 01:17:50,180 Trust me, nobody will have mercy with you! 914 01:17:54,660 --> 01:17:56,300 You must abandon him. 915 01:17:58,940 --> 01:18:01,100 I haven't done anything that I should be ashamed of. 916 01:18:01,100 --> 01:18:03,180 Do you want to destroy the work of your life? 917 01:18:06,420 --> 01:18:07,700 Where are you going? 918 01:18:07,700 --> 01:18:09,620 My distillation can't wait. 919 01:18:10,580 --> 01:18:12,500 Madame Curie! Madame Curie! Here! 920 01:18:12,500 --> 01:18:14,420 One question, please, Madame Curie! 921 01:18:15,740 --> 01:18:19,260 Is it true that you will force professor Langevin to leave his wife? 922 01:18:19,260 --> 01:18:21,180 How long have you been having the affair?! 923 01:18:23,940 --> 01:18:25,700 You are destroying family values! 924 01:18:25,940 --> 01:18:27,060 Are you Jewish? 925 01:18:35,100 --> 01:18:37,980 Say that you didn't do it?! Say that the press is lying! 926 01:18:38,900 --> 01:18:41,900 - You better help me! - They will raise hell here! 927 01:18:48,060 --> 01:18:50,660 - We have a lot of work to do. - Work... 928 01:18:51,540 --> 01:18:53,900 While everybody is talking about your love affair? 929 01:18:55,580 --> 01:18:57,500 Paul asked me to be his second. 930 01:18:57,900 --> 01:18:59,340 He challenged Gustave Téry. 931 01:18:59,340 --> 01:19:01,100 No, not this! 932 01:19:01,380 --> 01:19:03,500 We are to meet tomorrow in Vincennes. 933 01:19:03,740 --> 01:19:06,980 We can't allow this! What else do you know? 934 01:19:10,820 --> 01:19:12,740 André?! 935 01:19:21,620 --> 01:19:23,540 You can't do this, Paul! 936 01:19:23,540 --> 01:19:25,460 I don't control anything anymore! 937 01:19:25,460 --> 01:19:27,380 Not if you leave your wife at last. 938 01:19:27,380 --> 01:19:30,180 - She'll demand custody of the children. - Agree then. 939 01:19:30,500 --> 01:19:32,420 That will put an end to her blackmail! 940 01:19:32,420 --> 01:19:35,060 And we will find a way for you to see your children as now. 941 01:19:35,060 --> 01:19:35,660 - No, no, no. 942 01:19:35,660 --> 01:19:38,900 - Jeanne will never agree to this. - Learn to fight for your rights. 943 01:19:39,380 --> 01:19:41,300 You need no gun to do this! 944 01:19:41,900 --> 01:19:46,380 We will sue her for theft, defamation and privacy violation! 945 01:19:46,380 --> 01:19:47,060 Marie. 946 01:19:47,420 --> 01:19:50,980 But I can't publicly drag the mother of my children to the courts. 947 01:19:51,020 --> 01:19:53,060 She threatened to kill me. 948 01:19:53,060 --> 01:19:55,740 Your wife always used you for her advantage. 949 01:19:59,340 --> 01:20:02,980 I don't mean living together straight away, we'll have to wait until... 950 01:20:03,020 --> 01:20:06,380 Until what? Until I become more like Pierre? 951 01:20:15,020 --> 01:20:18,380 You are afraid of divorce, but you are not afraid of playing with death? 952 01:20:18,900 --> 01:20:20,820 It's a matter of honour, Marie. 953 01:20:22,380 --> 01:20:24,300 Trivial matter, Paul. 954 01:20:24,300 --> 01:20:26,300 Don't talk about something you can't understand. 955 01:20:26,300 --> 01:20:27,300 Go away from there. 956 01:20:41,460 --> 01:20:44,940 What you are for me no other woman can become, never. 957 01:20:45,780 --> 01:20:48,620 Say you didn't do it?! Say the press is lying! 958 01:20:49,580 --> 01:20:52,940 Marie, we will get crazy if we are not able to live as we like. 959 01:20:52,940 --> 01:20:54,500 Mum! 960 01:20:54,500 --> 01:20:57,500 Don't be naive. Paul will never be Pierre. 961 01:20:58,620 --> 01:21:01,140 Life is so trivial if you can not think together. 962 01:21:01,140 --> 01:21:03,060 Tomorrow at dawn in Vincennes Groove. 963 01:21:03,060 --> 01:21:04,980 We can not allow this! 964 01:21:04,980 --> 01:21:06,900 This is a matter of honour. 965 01:21:19,860 --> 01:21:21,780 Go on! I will tell you where to stop. 966 01:21:45,500 --> 01:21:49,340 Oh, Mum I thought you were dead! 967 01:21:50,660 --> 01:21:53,180 I am sorry Iréne, I am so sorry. 968 01:21:53,180 --> 01:21:57,260 Who are this people outside? Why are they calling you names? 969 01:21:58,620 --> 01:22:00,540 I am, I am already now. 970 01:22:09,540 --> 01:22:11,460 Time to go to sleep. 971 01:22:12,740 --> 01:22:16,100 We will manage, Marie. We will survive this. 972 01:22:44,580 --> 01:22:46,500 Gentlemen, shake your hands. 973 01:23:01,940 --> 01:23:05,780 Ten, nine, eight... 974 01:23:22,940 --> 01:23:26,300 I shall not deprive France of one of its most eminent minds! 975 01:23:26,300 --> 01:23:29,660 Don't offend me, please! Shoot! 976 01:23:34,740 --> 01:23:36,660 Long live France and its scientists! 977 01:23:37,460 --> 01:23:39,380 Paul! Stop it! 978 01:23:40,340 --> 01:23:42,260 Move along! Move along, everybody! 979 01:24:39,020 --> 01:24:41,820 What would I do without you? 980 01:24:55,860 --> 01:24:57,780 I don't want to hide anymore. 981 01:25:21,860 --> 01:25:24,860 I don't understand why Langevin challenged Téry 982 01:25:24,860 --> 01:25:27,980 to a duel if the accusations were groundless. 983 01:25:29,180 --> 01:25:31,100 All this mess around your person has put 984 01:25:31,100 --> 01:25:33,060 the Swedish Academy of Science in a difficult position. 985 01:25:33,060 --> 01:25:35,180 We prepared an announcement in which you declare, 986 01:25:35,180 --> 01:25:37,500 that you voluntarily renounce the Nobel Prize. 987 01:25:37,500 --> 01:25:40,820 At least until this story with Langevin is settled. 988 01:25:40,820 --> 01:25:43,820 This is the most elegant outcome in this situation. For everybody. 989 01:25:44,300 --> 01:25:46,740 The Prize was given to me for my radium discovery. 990 01:25:47,580 --> 01:25:49,500 A scientist's achievements has nothing to do 991 01:25:49,500 --> 01:25:51,420 with his private life. 992 01:25:51,420 --> 01:25:55,260 The European press writes for weeks only about your moral indecency. 993 01:25:55,260 --> 01:25:57,380 Only because I am a woman. 994 01:25:58,220 --> 01:26:01,580 If you want to exclude every male scientist who has had some love affair, 995 01:26:02,580 --> 01:26:05,180 you will be left with nobody to give the Nobel Prize to. 996 01:26:05,780 --> 01:26:09,500 Since I can't count on your cooperation, 997 01:26:09,500 --> 01:26:11,980 and considering the amplitude of the scandal, 998 01:26:12,020 --> 01:26:15,060 I have no other choice, but to forbid you to travel to Stockholm. 999 01:26:24,740 --> 01:26:26,660 Must we really part with him? 1000 01:26:27,860 --> 01:26:31,620 The element 88 is, since today, property of the world! 1001 01:26:38,300 --> 01:26:40,580 I would have never managed without your help, Andree! 1002 01:26:45,060 --> 01:26:46,980 In case something happened to me, 1003 01:26:46,980 --> 01:26:49,580 I must be assured that nothing will be lost. 1004 01:26:49,580 --> 01:26:51,500 What are you talking about? 1005 01:26:52,380 --> 01:26:54,300 Here is a full list of our samples, 1006 01:26:55,140 --> 01:26:57,420 plus my instructions. 1007 01:26:58,740 --> 01:27:00,740 It's everything you should know. 1008 01:27:04,260 --> 01:27:06,180 Marie, you will outlive us all! 1009 01:27:38,340 --> 01:27:40,740 What will you tell your grandchildren, gentlemen, 1010 01:27:40,740 --> 01:27:43,100 when they one day ask you how could have been so blind? 1011 01:27:47,700 --> 01:27:50,580 Thanks to my isolation... 1012 01:28:02,220 --> 01:28:04,860 Full of contradictions... 1013 01:28:06,740 --> 01:28:09,260 Incalculable chemistry... 1014 01:28:20,900 --> 01:28:22,820 Flowers for Madame. 1015 01:29:02,460 --> 01:29:04,340 Leave me alone! 1016 01:29:13,380 --> 01:29:15,620 Madame. Mademoiselle. 1017 01:29:17,780 --> 01:29:21,300 Here is a miserable fool, standing before you with his mind limited 1018 01:29:21,300 --> 01:29:23,700 by the ideas of previous century. 1019 01:29:24,180 --> 01:29:26,540 Madame, please accept my apology! 1020 01:29:27,540 --> 01:29:29,780 Everyone should act according to their convictions. 1021 01:29:29,780 --> 01:29:31,380 Good luck, Madame. 1022 01:29:31,980 --> 01:29:33,900 If you allow me one last question. 1023 01:29:34,940 --> 01:29:36,860 Where will you put your second Nobel Prize? 1024 01:29:37,820 --> 01:29:39,300 Next to the first one. 1025 01:29:44,300 --> 01:29:48,060 I hope I have correctly interpreted the recognition of the Academy 1026 01:29:48,060 --> 01:29:50,780 assuming it refers to both, 1027 01:29:50,780 --> 01:29:52,700 mine and my husband - Pierre Curie's achievements. 1028 01:29:56,780 --> 01:30:00,420 We should be less curious to know people and more curious to know their thoughts. 1029 01:30:00,860 --> 01:30:06,140 The rejection of knowledge and the fear of creative thinking lead to lost societies. 1030 01:30:06,620 --> 01:30:09,260 One shouldn't be scared of anything in life, but strive to comprehend. 1031 01:30:09,620 --> 01:30:12,020 Who would we be without curiosity of mind? 1032 01:30:12,540 --> 01:30:15,620 I am one of these who consider science to be an expression of beauty. 1033 01:30:16,260 --> 01:30:18,860 I am happy to be able to devote my life to discovering 1034 01:30:18,860 --> 01:30:21,020 mystery of the universe. 1035 01:32:03,620 --> 01:32:06,060 In 1935, Iréne returned to Stockholm and was the second woman 1036 01:32:06,060 --> 01:32:08,660 after her mother to be awarded a Nobel Prize. 1037 01:32:09,740 --> 01:32:12,740 The fate of the Curie and Langevin families remained intertwined: 1038 01:32:12,740 --> 01:32:17,060 In 1950, Marie Curie's granddaughter, Héléne married Michel Langevin, the grandson of Paul Langevin. 1039 01:32:17,060 --> 01:32:19,700 Héléne and Michel are both physicists. 1040 01:32:20,540 --> 01:32:25,500 Marie Curie died in 1934 at the age of 66. In 1995, her remains were transfered together 1041 01:32:25,500 --> 01:32:30,740 with those of Pierre Curie to the Parisian Pantheon, where Paul Langevin was also interred in 1948.