1 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:26,917 Madame? 2 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,125 Madame Curie! 3 00:02:30,083 --> 00:02:31,125 Get an ambulance car! 4 00:02:33,083 --> 00:02:35,083 Madame, what happened? 5 00:02:42,958 --> 00:02:44,542 Hurry. She's very weak. 6 00:02:44,708 --> 00:02:47,208 - This is Madame Curie? - Yes. 7 00:02:48,417 --> 00:02:50,958 Get your morning paper! 8 00:03:08,083 --> 00:03:09,833 Oh! 9 00:03:24,083 --> 00:03:25,000 Duclaux? 10 00:03:25,167 --> 00:03:26,708 Yes. 11 00:03:27,750 --> 00:03:29,792 Are you interested in microbiology? 12 00:03:30,750 --> 00:03:32,167 I'm interested in all science 13 00:03:32,250 --> 00:03:33,708 that confronts prevailing attitudes. 14 00:03:34,833 --> 00:03:36,208 I'm Pierre Curie. 15 00:03:37,167 --> 00:03:38,792 Hello, Monsieur Curie. 16 00:03:40,167 --> 00:03:42,000 Goodbye. 17 00:04:03,833 --> 00:04:06,167 You're with company. 18 00:04:06,250 --> 00:04:07,167 I've intruded. 19 00:04:07,708 --> 00:04:08,625 You have. 20 00:04:10,250 --> 00:04:12,917 Now is your opportunity to tell us why you may have intruded, 21 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,250 Mademoiselle Sklodowska. 22 00:04:15,333 --> 00:04:16,583 Professor Lippmann, 23 00:04:16,750 --> 00:04:18,750 I want to protest in the strongest possible terms. 24 00:04:18,917 --> 00:04:21,583 My equipment was moved again last night. 25 00:04:22,625 --> 00:04:24,042 There's a simple reason for that. 26 00:04:24,208 --> 00:04:26,083 More than simple. It is a distinct lack of respect 27 00:04:26,250 --> 00:04:29,000 by those who share your laboratory with me. 28 00:04:29,958 --> 00:04:30,875 Allow me to posit 29 00:04:31,041 --> 00:04:33,500 an opposing hypothesis, Mademoiselle Sklodowska. 30 00:04:33,667 --> 00:04:36,292 It might be that your equipment takes up too much space. 31 00:04:36,458 --> 00:04:37,583 If a scientist's equipment cannot be kept 32 00:04:37,750 --> 00:04:39,458 in the precise positions in which it was left... 33 00:04:39,625 --> 00:04:40,583 Then we are savages, not scientists. 34 00:04:40,667 --> 00:04:41,583 I couldn't agree more. 35 00:04:41,750 --> 00:04:43,083 Then all I need is your assurance... 36 00:04:43,167 --> 00:04:44,167 And it is for this reason I must ask you 37 00:04:44,333 --> 00:04:45,917 please to leave my laboratory. 38 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,417 Leave? 39 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:51,833 We cannot keep you in the manner you require. 40 00:04:53,042 --> 00:04:55,375 But I have nowhere else to go. 41 00:04:55,458 --> 00:04:57,208 Then you'll have to set up a laboratory of your own, 42 00:04:57,292 --> 00:04:59,125 Mademoiselle Sklodowska. 43 00:05:01,250 --> 00:05:03,417 I lack the funds. 44 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:07,083 Then your lack of foresight in presenting me, constantly, 45 00:05:07,167 --> 00:05:09,833 with demands is something that will teach all of us 46 00:05:09,917 --> 00:05:12,000 a valuable lesson. 47 00:05:26,042 --> 00:05:28,917 - Maybe it's because I'm Polish. - Of course not. 48 00:05:29,083 --> 00:05:30,625 Or it's because I'm not a man. 49 00:05:30,792 --> 00:05:33,125 Well, yes, it might be that. But, Marya... 50 00:05:33,292 --> 00:05:35,250 We are in Paris. I have taken the name Marie. 51 00:05:36,625 --> 00:05:39,083 - Your child is crying. - Yes, I am aware of that. 52 00:05:39,250 --> 00:05:42,458 So, shouldn't you assume some sort of motherly disposition? 53 00:05:42,625 --> 00:05:45,042 - Sorry, madame. - Thank you. 54 00:05:45,958 --> 00:05:48,125 There. Shh, shh. 55 00:05:48,875 --> 00:05:49,917 Thank you, Lana. 56 00:05:51,083 --> 00:05:53,500 What if you were to visit him? Apologise? 57 00:05:53,583 --> 00:05:56,292 I came all the way from Poland to study science. 58 00:05:57,458 --> 00:05:59,500 I can't apologise. Science is lost to me! 59 00:05:59,667 --> 00:06:00,917 I'm going to have to become a teacher! 60 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,167 Oh, you are impossibly dramatic. 61 00:06:05,708 --> 00:06:07,875 Your child is dramatic. 62 00:06:12,125 --> 00:06:13,458 Marya... 63 00:06:14,917 --> 00:06:16,667 - Apologise. - No! Never. 64 00:06:17,417 --> 00:06:19,917 I will find my own way. 65 00:06:44,292 --> 00:06:45,625 No. 66 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,333 No. 67 00:07:18,833 --> 00:07:20,583 Most amazing. 68 00:07:24,917 --> 00:07:28,583 Please don't suppose anything by me standing beside you. 69 00:07:28,667 --> 00:07:31,875 It's the woman from the street with the Duclaux. Hello. 70 00:07:31,958 --> 00:07:32,875 I stand beside you 71 00:07:32,958 --> 00:07:34,542 merely because you look as awkward as I feel. 72 00:07:34,625 --> 00:07:36,458 - And I made the... - Do I seem awkward? 73 00:07:36,542 --> 00:07:37,417 ...I think, correct assumption 74 00:07:37,708 --> 00:07:39,125 that we will look less awkward standing together... 75 00:07:39,208 --> 00:07:40,125 I don't feel awkward. 76 00:07:40,208 --> 00:07:42,458 ...than we might standing apart. 77 00:07:44,333 --> 00:07:46,375 Well, that's a theory I can support. 78 00:07:46,542 --> 00:07:48,333 I'm Pierre Curie. 79 00:07:48,417 --> 00:07:49,333 You do like your name, don't you? 80 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:51,042 That's the second time you've told me it. 81 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:53,750 You're Marya Sklodowska. 82 00:07:53,917 --> 00:07:55,708 I don't believe I gave you my name. 83 00:07:57,667 --> 00:08:00,917 She's wonderful, isn't she? The dancer. 84 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,375 Her name is Loie Fuller should you wish to see her again. 85 00:08:04,542 --> 00:08:09,208 Do you make it your business to know everybody's names? 86 00:08:09,292 --> 00:08:11,625 She calls it, this dance, her fire dance. 87 00:08:11,708 --> 00:08:12,625 Why? 88 00:08:12,792 --> 00:08:14,125 I believe it's because she's interested 89 00:08:14,208 --> 00:08:15,542 in the way flames move. 90 00:08:21,583 --> 00:08:23,000 You're right, you didn't tell me your name, 91 00:08:23,083 --> 00:08:24,667 but I do know it for three reasons. 92 00:08:25,917 --> 00:08:29,167 One: you're one of only 23 female scientists 93 00:08:29,250 --> 00:08:30,750 within the department. 94 00:08:30,833 --> 00:08:32,250 A prime number. 95 00:08:33,792 --> 00:08:36,500 Two: I've heard about your run-ins with Professor Lippmann. 96 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,500 They've gained you some infamy. 97 00:08:42,292 --> 00:08:44,707 And three: I read your paper 98 00:08:44,792 --> 00:08:47,542 on the magnetic properties of steel. 99 00:08:47,707 --> 00:08:50,125 It contained some exceptional science. 100 00:08:53,832 --> 00:08:55,500 Thank you. 101 00:08:57,542 --> 00:08:58,958 And as you've been so kind, 102 00:08:59,125 --> 00:09:00,833 I will admit that I have also read your paper 103 00:09:00,917 --> 00:09:02,250 - on crystallisation. - Oh? 104 00:09:02,417 --> 00:09:04,292 Which I enjoyed. Very much. 105 00:09:04,458 --> 00:09:06,292 Hm. 106 00:09:06,375 --> 00:09:07,958 Thank you. 107 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 I also heard what Lippmann did, evicting you from your lab. 108 00:09:12,083 --> 00:09:13,000 I am sorry. 109 00:09:13,167 --> 00:09:15,750 I don't need pity, Monsieur Curie. 110 00:09:15,833 --> 00:09:17,167 But if I could be of any assistance... 111 00:09:17,250 --> 00:09:18,667 I will be fine. 112 00:09:41,167 --> 00:09:42,458 Oh! 113 00:09:49,958 --> 00:09:51,625 Just to be clear, I refuse to be grateful 114 00:09:51,708 --> 00:09:53,458 for a scientist offering another scientist a room. 115 00:09:53,542 --> 00:09:55,208 I'm more than capable and my work... 116 00:09:55,292 --> 00:09:57,375 Your ingratitude is entirely correct. 117 00:09:57,458 --> 00:09:58,875 And also I feel it's worth pointing out 118 00:09:58,958 --> 00:10:01,125 that I will not be your mistress. 119 00:10:01,208 --> 00:10:03,125 The thought hadn't occurred to me. 120 00:10:03,208 --> 00:10:04,958 And I won't tolerate meddling. 121 00:10:05,042 --> 00:10:06,333 I will not be told how my experiments 122 00:10:06,542 --> 00:10:09,167 - will be optimised better... - Well, I enjoy sharing science, 123 00:10:09,250 --> 00:10:10,417 and I think that by working together... 124 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:11,833 I will not tolerate it. 125 00:10:13,042 --> 00:10:15,042 Well, you'll have to learn to tolerate it. 126 00:10:15,125 --> 00:10:16,625 I like collaboration. 127 00:10:16,708 --> 00:10:18,375 I will take an interest in your work 128 00:10:18,458 --> 00:10:21,833 and I'll be interested if you take an interest in mine. 129 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,250 Mademoiselle Sklodowska? 130 00:10:24,333 --> 00:10:26,417 Before you turn your back on the only room 131 00:10:26,500 --> 00:10:30,292 anyone is offering you, will you at least see where I work? 132 00:10:37,333 --> 00:10:38,583 Basic. 133 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:43,417 Marcel, Andre, Maurice and Paul, 134 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:47,250 may I introduce Mademoiselle Marie Sklodowska. 135 00:10:47,333 --> 00:10:49,208 Such a pleasure to meet you, Mademoiselle Sklodowska. 136 00:10:49,375 --> 00:10:50,917 - We've heard so much about you. - You have? 137 00:10:51,833 --> 00:10:53,875 The Académie probably dislike me 138 00:10:53,958 --> 00:10:55,542 almost as much as they dislike you. 139 00:10:55,625 --> 00:10:57,042 I've been passed over 140 00:10:57,208 --> 00:11:00,000 for every major advancement, professorship, funding. 141 00:11:01,417 --> 00:11:04,000 Why? Well, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe I bore them, 142 00:11:04,167 --> 00:11:06,333 maybe I scare them, but they do me no great favour, either. 143 00:11:07,458 --> 00:11:09,250 But you're a scientist of some renown. 144 00:11:10,375 --> 00:11:12,875 Well, and I'm asking you to share my renowned, 145 00:11:12,958 --> 00:11:15,583 yet basic, space with me. 146 00:11:15,750 --> 00:11:17,833 Why are you asking? 147 00:11:19,792 --> 00:11:21,458 I have an instinct about you. 148 00:11:23,542 --> 00:11:26,000 An instinct is not a particularly scientific reason. 149 00:11:26,167 --> 00:11:28,417 No, but it's still a reason. 150 00:11:32,458 --> 00:11:33,875 Yes. 151 00:11:35,333 --> 00:11:37,667 Yes, this will suit my needs entirely. 152 00:11:40,250 --> 00:11:41,667 Good. 153 00:11:42,542 --> 00:11:43,958 Good. 154 00:12:20,708 --> 00:12:22,375 You've been frowning at that all week. 155 00:12:22,458 --> 00:12:23,542 I'm observing. 156 00:12:24,333 --> 00:12:25,417 What are you looking for? 157 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:27,917 I find it easier to observe when I'm not talking. 158 00:12:33,583 --> 00:12:34,583 I measure uranium, 159 00:12:34,833 --> 00:12:39,125 and I discover less radiations than I do in its ore. 160 00:12:39,750 --> 00:12:42,333 The ore is more powerful than the element? 161 00:12:42,417 --> 00:12:44,500 Exactly. And I can't quite work... 162 00:12:44,583 --> 00:12:46,083 There must be some anomaly in the results. 163 00:12:46,250 --> 00:12:49,625 I've run the same test six times. I get identical results. 164 00:12:51,208 --> 00:12:55,083 My instinct is that there is another element 165 00:12:55,167 --> 00:12:57,000 that's skewing the results. 166 00:12:57,167 --> 00:12:58,958 You think you've found an undiscovered element? 167 00:12:59,125 --> 00:13:02,792 - If you're laughing at me... - No, I'm not laughing at you. 168 00:13:02,958 --> 00:13:04,667 That's exciting. 169 00:13:07,958 --> 00:13:09,875 Your measuring equipment is useless. 170 00:13:09,958 --> 00:13:11,542 It's worked perfectly fine for me so far. 171 00:13:11,625 --> 00:13:12,500 If we're to get the figures you need, 172 00:13:12,875 --> 00:13:15,250 we need something that's capable of extreme precision. 173 00:13:15,333 --> 00:13:16,917 There is no "we". 174 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,583 You need something that's capable of measuring 175 00:13:18,667 --> 00:13:21,083 - microscopic aspects of energy. - No, please. No, no... 176 00:13:21,167 --> 00:13:24,000 Yes. And I have an idea. Follow me. 177 00:13:47,625 --> 00:13:48,625 Monsieur Curie. 178 00:13:53,125 --> 00:13:54,708 I'm sorry, I know it's some distance. 179 00:13:54,792 --> 00:13:56,458 The length of our journey doesn't agitate me, 180 00:13:56,542 --> 00:13:59,500 Monsieur Curie. The destination does. 181 00:14:00,792 --> 00:14:02,792 This is one of the finest hospitals in Paris. 182 00:14:02,875 --> 00:14:03,792 There's a piece of equipment... 183 00:14:03,875 --> 00:14:06,375 I choose not to go into hospitals. 184 00:14:07,708 --> 00:14:09,708 But you're a scientist! 185 00:14:27,083 --> 00:14:30,917 'Marya, are you frightened?' 186 00:14:34,042 --> 00:14:35,292 Of what? 187 00:14:36,875 --> 00:14:38,875 Of my illness? 188 00:14:40,750 --> 00:14:42,167 No. 189 00:14:42,750 --> 00:14:43,875 Good. 190 00:14:45,250 --> 00:14:47,292 Because there's no reason to be frightened. 191 00:14:51,542 --> 00:14:53,375 Will you die? 192 00:14:55,208 --> 00:14:57,125 Not if you cure me. 193 00:14:57,750 --> 00:14:59,167 How can I cure you? 194 00:14:59,708 --> 00:15:00,958 You can kiss me. 195 00:15:02,208 --> 00:15:05,583 If you kiss me again, I promise I won't die. 196 00:15:05,667 --> 00:15:07,083 But Bronia says... 197 00:15:07,250 --> 00:15:09,333 Your sister doesn't know everything. 198 00:15:09,417 --> 00:15:11,417 Hmm? Kiss me. 199 00:15:17,417 --> 00:15:18,750 Did you feel that? 200 00:15:19,917 --> 00:15:21,208 No. 201 00:15:22,792 --> 00:15:27,667 That was the sound of the world turning in a new direction. 202 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,583 The Marya Sklodowska direction. 203 00:15:33,667 --> 00:15:35,833 I can't feel it. 204 00:15:36,792 --> 00:15:38,542 Kiss me again. 205 00:15:43,958 --> 00:15:44,875 Now... 206 00:15:45,792 --> 00:15:47,292 ...can you feel it? 207 00:15:48,958 --> 00:15:51,958 Yes. Yes... 208 00:15:52,875 --> 00:15:54,208 ...I think I did. 209 00:15:54,875 --> 00:15:56,625 You cured me. 210 00:16:28,708 --> 00:16:30,458 Sorry, that took longer than I thought. 211 00:16:30,625 --> 00:16:31,542 Are you feeling better? 212 00:16:31,625 --> 00:16:33,875 I've decided, my experiments can cope perfectly well 213 00:16:33,958 --> 00:16:35,500 without your equipment. 214 00:16:36,625 --> 00:16:38,375 When we were working with crystals, 215 00:16:38,458 --> 00:16:42,542 we needed to be able to measure microscopic amounts of charge. 216 00:16:42,708 --> 00:16:44,250 And nothing worked 217 00:16:44,417 --> 00:16:46,167 until I built this. 218 00:16:49,917 --> 00:16:52,083 It's a quadrant electrometer. 219 00:16:52,167 --> 00:16:54,917 It's capable of measuring, precisely, 220 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,000 the tiny amounts of electrical charge in a material. 221 00:16:58,083 --> 00:17:00,208 It measures electrical potential? 222 00:17:01,208 --> 00:17:03,417 Your equipment isn't good enough. 223 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:04,542 Mine is. 224 00:17:04,708 --> 00:17:08,792 Your science is brilliant, but so is mine. 225 00:17:09,292 --> 00:17:11,208 You're proposing a partnership? 226 00:17:13,542 --> 00:17:16,083 That's exactly what I'm doing. 227 00:17:17,583 --> 00:17:20,583 Well, basically, it's just a question of dissolving. 228 00:17:20,666 --> 00:17:23,000 My husband is looking at me disapprovingly again. 229 00:17:23,083 --> 00:17:24,250 I'm doing nothing of the sort. 230 00:17:24,333 --> 00:17:26,083 You think I'm asking stupid questions 231 00:17:26,166 --> 00:17:27,750 to your eminent friends. 232 00:17:27,833 --> 00:17:30,416 Your questions aren't stupid. Really. 233 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:32,750 My mother told me, never marry a brilliant man. 234 00:17:32,833 --> 00:17:34,500 You'll disappoint them and they'll disappoint you. 235 00:17:35,458 --> 00:17:36,791 And why will I disappoint you? 236 00:17:36,875 --> 00:17:38,541 By failing to avoid making her feel inadequate, 237 00:17:38,625 --> 00:17:40,000 I would suspect. 238 00:17:40,875 --> 00:17:42,833 This woman can stay. 239 00:17:44,375 --> 00:17:47,208 No, I'll clear. You're asking questions. 240 00:17:49,958 --> 00:17:52,000 - So, you... - Thank you. 241 00:17:52,083 --> 00:17:57,083 ...you take the ore... and you dissolve into it... 242 00:17:57,167 --> 00:17:59,250 Well, we take the pitchblende, 243 00:17:59,333 --> 00:18:00,833 which is a special ore 244 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,333 that comes all the way from a mine in Bohemia, 245 00:18:03,417 --> 00:18:05,167 and then we use a scientific process 246 00:18:05,250 --> 00:18:08,250 to remove the elements we know we can remove 247 00:18:08,333 --> 00:18:10,292 and look at what's left. 248 00:18:10,458 --> 00:18:12,542 And what scientific processes might you use? 249 00:18:12,625 --> 00:18:14,792 These are very good questions. 250 00:18:14,958 --> 00:18:18,667 We crush it, which is extremely hard work. 251 00:18:18,833 --> 00:18:23,167 Then we boil it, which results in the removal of substance. 252 00:18:23,333 --> 00:18:26,708 We add acidic and alkaline solutions to it... 253 00:18:27,875 --> 00:18:30,417 ...until only that which is pure remains. 254 00:18:30,583 --> 00:18:32,667 And there's a lot of substance to remove. 255 00:18:32,750 --> 00:18:34,875 - And it will be worth it. - It's very exciting. 256 00:18:35,042 --> 00:18:37,458 And why are you looking at uranium in the first place? 257 00:18:37,542 --> 00:18:38,458 Becquerel. 258 00:18:38,542 --> 00:18:40,042 A more than competent scientist. 259 00:18:40,125 --> 00:18:41,750 Becquerel discovered, accidentally, 260 00:18:41,917 --> 00:18:44,875 that uranium salts, wrapped in a black cloth, left in a drawer, 261 00:18:45,042 --> 00:18:47,375 left an impression on a photographic plate. 262 00:18:47,458 --> 00:18:49,125 And he thought that the uranium 263 00:18:49,208 --> 00:18:50,708 was having an unusual chemical reaction 264 00:18:50,792 --> 00:18:51,708 with something in the atmosphere. 265 00:18:51,792 --> 00:18:53,875 I say it's the element itself. 266 00:19:02,375 --> 00:19:04,583 - A very radical thought. - I still don't understand. 267 00:19:04,750 --> 00:19:07,250 Imagine a grape. How do you turn a grape into wine? 268 00:19:07,417 --> 00:19:09,208 - You crush it and ferment it. - Yes. 269 00:19:09,292 --> 00:19:11,958 So, imagine a grape crushes itself, ferments itself, 270 00:19:12,125 --> 00:19:13,958 changes its very being. 271 00:19:14,125 --> 00:19:17,708 And what if I told you that as the grape turns itself into wine 272 00:19:17,875 --> 00:19:19,833 it releases a powerful surge of energy, 273 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,083 power that can make things happen. 274 00:19:24,333 --> 00:19:26,333 You'd be excited, am I right? 275 00:19:26,417 --> 00:19:29,917 - I think so. Yes, I would. - So, science is changing 276 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,000 and the very people who are running science 277 00:19:32,083 --> 00:19:34,167 are the people who believed the world was flat. 278 00:19:34,250 --> 00:19:35,917 And I'm going to prove them wrong. 279 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,792 Just as Newton did. 280 00:19:38,583 --> 00:19:40,000 - We are. - Thank you. 281 00:19:48,417 --> 00:19:51,000 I see the way you look at me, Pierre. 282 00:19:51,750 --> 00:19:54,083 How do I look at you? 283 00:19:54,167 --> 00:19:56,500 Like a fermenting grape? 284 00:19:56,583 --> 00:19:59,917 - I enjoyed that analogy. - It was a good analogy. 285 00:20:04,708 --> 00:20:06,458 But you're right. 286 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:09,917 I do look at you in a certain way. 287 00:20:10,875 --> 00:20:12,792 And sometimes 288 00:20:12,875 --> 00:20:16,458 I have the feeling you look at me the same way back. 289 00:20:16,542 --> 00:20:19,792 When my mother died, I couldn't speak for a week. 290 00:20:19,875 --> 00:20:21,792 And people thought it was grief. It wasn't. 291 00:20:21,875 --> 00:20:24,125 It was that I simply couldn't comprehend 292 00:20:24,208 --> 00:20:26,833 why something so important had been taken from me. 293 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,917 I have been selfish my entire life, Pierre, 294 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,333 and if you hope to change that... 295 00:20:30,417 --> 00:20:35,500 You're not selfish, you're just... self-absorbed, 296 00:20:35,583 --> 00:20:37,333 and you don't like anyone to take what's yours. 297 00:20:37,417 --> 00:20:41,167 I will never be the woman or the wife you want me to be. 298 00:20:41,250 --> 00:20:44,000 You laugh at me? 299 00:20:44,792 --> 00:20:46,708 I have been presumptuous. 300 00:20:46,792 --> 00:20:49,125 I know, we hardly know each other. 301 00:20:49,208 --> 00:20:51,167 I'm laughing because 302 00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:54,750 you've denied me the chance to propose to you. 303 00:20:56,375 --> 00:20:59,125 - Oh yes, I have, haven't I? - Mm-hmm. 304 00:21:00,792 --> 00:21:02,208 Well, as a matter of scientific interest, 305 00:21:02,292 --> 00:21:04,958 was proposing even your intention? 306 00:21:05,042 --> 00:21:06,708 Well, as a matter of scientific interest, 307 00:21:06,792 --> 00:21:10,792 the thought wasn't fully formed in my head yet. 308 00:21:10,875 --> 00:21:13,625 As you say, we hardly know each other. 309 00:21:14,917 --> 00:21:17,750 But yes, I suspect it was. 310 00:21:25,167 --> 00:21:27,167 Marie Sklodowska... 311 00:21:29,125 --> 00:21:33,875 ...you are better than any woman I could have hoped for... 312 00:21:35,083 --> 00:21:38,083 ...and I'll never consider you my woman. 313 00:21:39,958 --> 00:21:42,917 And I would like to share my life with you. 314 00:22:11,333 --> 00:22:12,458 Thank you very much. 315 00:22:12,625 --> 00:22:14,042 This way, please. 316 00:22:15,167 --> 00:22:16,667 Don't move. 317 00:23:03,583 --> 00:23:06,083 Remind me whenever I forget that we should leave Paris 318 00:23:06,167 --> 00:23:08,333 as often as humanly possible. 319 00:23:09,667 --> 00:23:12,417 We should experience all the world has to offer. 320 00:23:13,333 --> 00:23:15,833 Remind me to retrain you 321 00:23:15,917 --> 00:23:19,583 out of that glorious need to overstate everything. 322 00:23:24,167 --> 00:23:26,583 I thought I was finished with women. 323 00:23:29,125 --> 00:23:30,083 What? 324 00:23:30,292 --> 00:23:33,958 From what you've told me, you barely started with women. 325 00:23:36,583 --> 00:23:42,333 I mean, I thought I just wanted to concentrate on science. 326 00:23:42,417 --> 00:23:46,083 You do love these portentous phrases, don't you? 327 00:23:48,792 --> 00:23:51,375 But you turned me round. 328 00:23:51,458 --> 00:23:53,875 I think you drugged me into compliance. 329 00:23:53,958 --> 00:23:56,458 I did no such thing. 330 00:23:57,667 --> 00:24:00,000 You're just extraordinary. 331 00:24:03,375 --> 00:24:04,542 This is entirely ridiculous. 332 00:24:04,708 --> 00:24:06,625 I'm carrying you over the threshold. 333 00:24:06,792 --> 00:24:08,292 You're blindfolding me over the threshold 334 00:24:08,375 --> 00:24:10,625 which requires far less effort on your part than mine. 335 00:24:10,708 --> 00:24:12,958 The Académie has, in honour of our wedding... 336 00:24:13,042 --> 00:24:14,292 And because they're excited by our work. 337 00:24:14,458 --> 00:24:16,292 ...decided to furnish us with new lodgings 338 00:24:16,375 --> 00:24:17,917 in which to deal with - big step - 339 00:24:18,083 --> 00:24:19,750 the pitchblende at our disposal. 340 00:24:19,833 --> 00:24:21,583 Then why do I need to be blindfolded? 341 00:24:21,667 --> 00:24:23,417 More exciting. 342 00:24:28,125 --> 00:24:29,625 Ready? 343 00:24:33,208 --> 00:24:34,292 Hello, Paul. 344 00:24:34,875 --> 00:24:37,125 - Welcome to Versailles. - This is... 345 00:24:37,208 --> 00:24:38,958 It's not quite what we wished for, but... 346 00:24:39,042 --> 00:24:42,292 - It's a lean-to. - Wait till you see inside. 347 00:24:44,833 --> 00:24:46,500 This is... 348 00:24:48,417 --> 00:24:50,000 Isn't it? 349 00:24:50,167 --> 00:24:51,083 Come in. 350 00:24:53,333 --> 00:24:57,333 - They've outdone themselves. - They have, haven't they? 351 00:24:57,417 --> 00:24:58,417 Hello? 352 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:01,083 I have an order for Marie Sklodowska? 353 00:25:01,167 --> 00:25:05,167 It's Marie Curie now, but this is the right place. 354 00:25:05,250 --> 00:25:06,500 I'll put it in the yard, shall I? 355 00:25:06,583 --> 00:25:08,250 Thanks. 356 00:25:08,333 --> 00:25:10,500 Is it the pitchblende? 357 00:26:12,167 --> 00:26:13,833 - Careful. - I am careful. 358 00:26:18,042 --> 00:26:19,125 Again. 359 00:27:23,292 --> 00:27:24,542 Irène? 360 00:27:24,708 --> 00:27:26,458 Irène. 361 00:27:31,125 --> 00:27:32,333 - The distil? - Just finishing. 362 00:27:41,833 --> 00:27:42,750 Yes. 363 00:27:45,667 --> 00:27:47,167 Here. 364 00:28:07,708 --> 00:28:09,708 Shh, Paul. 365 00:28:14,375 --> 00:28:15,875 That's radium. 366 00:28:17,542 --> 00:28:19,042 Radium? 367 00:28:19,125 --> 00:28:21,875 A pinprick of radium. 368 00:28:21,958 --> 00:28:24,958 Gathered from four tonnes of pitchblende. 369 00:28:25,958 --> 00:28:27,958 There's more to find, but... 370 00:28:31,083 --> 00:28:34,333 Isn't it the most beautiful thing you've ever seen? 371 00:28:34,417 --> 00:28:36,083 And you're sure? You're sure of it? 372 00:28:36,167 --> 00:28:37,667 I'm certain. 373 00:28:39,125 --> 00:28:41,042 Yes. 374 00:28:41,125 --> 00:28:43,708 It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. 375 00:28:45,042 --> 00:28:48,250 Well, I guess everything changes now, doesn't it? 376 00:28:51,250 --> 00:28:52,750 Yes. 377 00:28:59,333 --> 00:29:00,750 Shh! 378 00:29:06,958 --> 00:29:09,958 We thought we would find a new element. 379 00:29:11,542 --> 00:29:12,542 We were wrong. 380 00:29:14,042 --> 00:29:16,167 It's taken four years, 381 00:29:16,333 --> 00:29:19,542 four tonnes of pitchblende, 382 00:29:19,708 --> 00:29:23,208 40 tonnes of corrosive chemicals 383 00:29:23,375 --> 00:29:25,958 and 400 tonnes of water. 384 00:29:28,667 --> 00:29:33,125 We are here to present to you two new elements: 385 00:29:33,292 --> 00:29:36,667 polonium and radium. 386 00:29:38,375 --> 00:29:40,958 We all thought that atoms were finite and stable. 387 00:29:41,042 --> 00:29:43,458 Well, it turns out some of them are not, 388 00:29:43,542 --> 00:29:48,042 and in their instability... they emit rays. 389 00:29:49,250 --> 00:29:53,792 I have called this... "radioactivity". 390 00:29:55,208 --> 00:29:58,917 We are here to tell you that you have fundamentally 391 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,458 misunderstood the atom. 392 00:30:02,625 --> 00:30:04,542 Extraordinary. 393 00:30:08,250 --> 00:30:09,958 Keep still. 394 00:30:12,208 --> 00:30:14,542 Well done. Fantastic. 395 00:30:14,625 --> 00:30:17,292 Bravo! Sublime! 396 00:30:20,750 --> 00:30:23,250 Bravo, Madame Curie! 397 00:30:28,042 --> 00:30:29,208 Bravo! 398 00:30:47,500 --> 00:30:49,500 Lady or a man? 399 00:30:49,583 --> 00:30:50,833 A lady, obviously. 400 00:30:50,917 --> 00:30:52,500 She's side-saddle, of course. 401 00:30:52,583 --> 00:30:54,000 - Hello. - Hello. 402 00:30:54,083 --> 00:30:55,333 - Have you ordered? - No. 403 00:30:55,417 --> 00:30:56,417 - Champagne. - Champagne? 404 00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:57,708 Of course, sir. 405 00:30:57,792 --> 00:30:58,708 - What? - I've got it. 406 00:30:58,875 --> 00:31:00,292 - You've got it? What? - I'm a Professor. 407 00:31:00,375 --> 00:31:02,208 - You are? Oh, Pierre! - I am. 408 00:31:02,375 --> 00:31:04,875 Finally they realise I have something to offer. 409 00:31:05,042 --> 00:31:06,958 - Be careful. - Oh! 410 00:31:07,958 --> 00:31:09,375 Why? 411 00:31:10,792 --> 00:31:12,625 - No? - Yes. 412 00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:17,958 I'm Professor Curie and I'm going to have two children. 413 00:31:18,042 --> 00:31:19,792 Daddy! 414 00:31:21,875 --> 00:31:24,875 Congratulations, Professor Curie. 415 00:31:34,958 --> 00:31:36,375 Where are we going? 416 00:31:36,458 --> 00:31:38,208 I'm taking you somewhere I think you're going to like. 417 00:31:38,375 --> 00:31:41,375 But I'm tired, I'm pregnant and it's freezing. 418 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:44,583 Loie Fuller has invited us to a seance. 419 00:31:44,667 --> 00:31:48,000 Loie Fuller? Spiritualism? Oh, you cannot be serious. 420 00:31:48,083 --> 00:31:49,833 It's a science like any other. 421 00:31:49,917 --> 00:31:51,083 Don't talk such rot. 422 00:31:51,167 --> 00:31:53,500 There's nothing to see or analyse. 423 00:31:53,583 --> 00:31:55,167 You can't see radioactivity. 424 00:31:55,250 --> 00:31:57,083 Yeah, but that's completely different. 425 00:32:02,375 --> 00:32:03,875 Good evening, Loie. 426 00:32:04,625 --> 00:32:06,167 We live in a world... 427 00:32:07,083 --> 00:32:10,000 ...where invisible light 428 00:32:10,083 --> 00:32:11,833 can pass through flesh... 429 00:32:12,917 --> 00:32:16,125 ...and expose the bones beneath it. 430 00:32:16,208 --> 00:32:17,625 Using X-gazes... 431 00:32:17,708 --> 00:32:20,542 ...I will call out 432 00:32:20,625 --> 00:32:26,375 the presence of Beethoven as it becomes clear to me. 433 00:32:26,458 --> 00:32:29,708 X-gazes? As in uranium rays? 434 00:32:29,792 --> 00:32:30,750 Yes. 435 00:32:33,250 --> 00:32:39,500 In a little while, the portrait of Beethoven will appear... 436 00:32:40,917 --> 00:32:43,000 ...on this photographic plate. 437 00:32:43,167 --> 00:32:45,167 And now Beethoven is going to come back from the dead. 438 00:32:50,333 --> 00:32:52,792 She's using our science to further her work. 439 00:32:52,958 --> 00:32:55,542 All scientists work on previous work. 440 00:32:55,625 --> 00:32:58,042 You call this science? 441 00:32:58,125 --> 00:33:00,875 This could change science forever. 442 00:33:00,958 --> 00:33:05,000 Do you not understand we've already changed science forever? 443 00:34:03,042 --> 00:34:05,375 Yeah, it's stronger on the other. 444 00:34:07,333 --> 00:34:08,750 This is definitely more refined. 445 00:34:10,917 --> 00:34:12,167 We've had another submission. 446 00:34:13,583 --> 00:34:16,750 - What did they want? - Radioactive smelling salts. 447 00:34:16,833 --> 00:34:18,500 As a cure for baldness. 448 00:34:19,333 --> 00:34:20,667 What did you say? 449 00:34:20,833 --> 00:34:22,500 We don't own radium, we don't have a patent 450 00:34:22,583 --> 00:34:25,417 and you are free to do as you will with it. 451 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:28,333 If we did have a patent, we'd have a bigger laboratory. 452 00:34:28,417 --> 00:34:29,333 Mmm. 453 00:34:30,875 --> 00:34:33,042 I know, the possibilities of science are more important... 454 00:34:33,125 --> 00:34:34,333 If we owned it, then people wouldn't be able 455 00:34:34,417 --> 00:34:35,333 to enjoy the possibilities of it. 456 00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:37,458 But it's trusting others to see the possibilities 457 00:34:37,542 --> 00:34:38,458 that I'm not sure of. 458 00:34:38,625 --> 00:34:42,375 Oh, people can see the possibilities, believe me. 459 00:34:44,708 --> 00:34:46,292 Radioactive matches. 460 00:34:47,208 --> 00:34:49,708 For your radioactive cigarettes. 461 00:34:49,792 --> 00:34:52,333 Radioactive chocolate. 462 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:55,000 Radioactive toothpaste. 463 00:34:55,167 --> 00:34:59,375 There's a letter in here about radioactive beauty powder. 464 00:34:59,542 --> 00:35:00,792 Loie Fuller wants us to do 465 00:35:00,875 --> 00:35:02,583 a radioactive jacket for her dance. 466 00:35:02,750 --> 00:35:05,333 Don't worry, I told her we don't make jackets. 467 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,250 Have you heard there's a dance craze on Broadway 468 00:35:09,333 --> 00:35:10,708 based on our work? 469 00:35:10,875 --> 00:35:11,875 "The Piff Paff Pouf". 470 00:35:12,875 --> 00:35:14,375 What have we done? 471 00:35:16,167 --> 00:35:17,417 What's that? 472 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,500 That's nothing. 473 00:35:24,250 --> 00:35:26,333 Henri Danlos, the dermatologist, 474 00:35:26,417 --> 00:35:29,500 came to me the other day, very excited. 475 00:35:29,583 --> 00:35:34,333 He put some radium chloride on a tumour 476 00:35:34,417 --> 00:35:36,708 and it showed some considerable shrinkage. 477 00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:40,333 Shrinkage? 478 00:35:41,958 --> 00:35:47,375 2,000 years, cancer, the uncurable illness. 479 00:35:47,458 --> 00:35:48,542 Can you imagine? 480 00:35:50,333 --> 00:35:52,667 They're starting a study group. 481 00:35:52,750 --> 00:35:54,958 He thinks our radium could cure cancer? 482 00:35:55,875 --> 00:35:58,458 Danlos is just the start. 483 00:35:59,708 --> 00:36:03,792 I can feel our work glowing out. 484 00:36:03,875 --> 00:36:06,667 I can feel it changing the world. 485 00:36:10,708 --> 00:36:13,458 {\an8}You see how soft this is? 486 00:36:13,542 --> 00:36:15,875 {\an8}It's like... bendy. 487 00:36:15,958 --> 00:36:17,792 {\an8}Mr Warner? I'm Dr Jenkins. 488 00:36:19,833 --> 00:36:22,500 And you must be Peter. 489 00:36:23,875 --> 00:36:25,458 Hello. 490 00:36:25,542 --> 00:36:28,458 Do you know who this guy is? This guy, he's the doctor. 491 00:36:28,542 --> 00:36:30,125 He's gonna make you a lot better. 492 00:36:30,208 --> 00:36:32,375 And then, you know what? We're all gonna go home. 493 00:36:32,458 --> 00:36:35,542 We're gonna use what's called a linear accelerator. 494 00:36:35,625 --> 00:36:36,542 Linear what? 495 00:36:37,375 --> 00:36:39,625 It's at the forefront of science, Mr Warner. 496 00:36:39,708 --> 00:36:41,625 But you have used one before? 497 00:36:41,792 --> 00:36:43,792 In this hospital, your son will be the first to use it. 498 00:36:43,958 --> 00:36:47,125 Around the world, it's the fifth machine of its kind. 499 00:36:47,208 --> 00:36:49,833 My child is not a monkey for your research. 500 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,792 Unless we find a way to make Peter better, 501 00:36:52,875 --> 00:36:54,042 this cancer will grow 502 00:36:54,125 --> 00:36:57,000 and it will infiltrate all his major organs. 503 00:36:57,167 --> 00:36:59,625 This machine will shrink his tumour, I guarantee it. 504 00:36:59,792 --> 00:37:01,875 If it will shrink it enough, I can't say. 505 00:37:01,958 --> 00:37:03,375 But it will substantially improve 506 00:37:03,458 --> 00:37:05,083 your child's chances to survive. 507 00:37:08,583 --> 00:37:10,500 I wanna see it. 508 00:37:10,583 --> 00:37:11,958 Of course you do. 509 00:37:16,250 --> 00:37:19,333 It's bigger than I expected. 510 00:37:19,417 --> 00:37:21,333 It's a machine with an incredible amount of power 511 00:37:21,417 --> 00:37:24,167 inside it. It needs to be big. 512 00:37:24,250 --> 00:37:26,667 Wait, he... he's gonna be inside it? 513 00:37:26,750 --> 00:37:28,750 No. No. 514 00:37:29,583 --> 00:37:32,250 He'll be strapped in here. 515 00:37:32,333 --> 00:37:34,667 He'll be strapped. 516 00:37:34,750 --> 00:37:36,833 It's just so he doesn't move. 517 00:37:36,917 --> 00:37:41,667 We need to be very precise as we use rays. 518 00:37:41,750 --> 00:37:43,375 Will he be in pain? 519 00:37:43,542 --> 00:37:48,250 Mr Warner, this machine will improve your son's life. 520 00:37:48,333 --> 00:37:49,708 And it may even save it. 521 00:37:53,458 --> 00:37:54,458 Okay. 522 00:37:56,083 --> 00:37:57,917 Stay still, son. 523 00:38:25,250 --> 00:38:26,667 Bad news? Is it bad news? 524 00:38:26,750 --> 00:38:29,333 No, it's not bad news. It went well. 525 00:38:29,417 --> 00:38:32,417 It... worked? You mean he's better? 526 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:36,250 It's a long road, Mr Warner, but we got off to a good start. 527 00:38:36,333 --> 00:38:38,583 - Would you like to see him? - Yeah. 528 00:38:44,042 --> 00:38:45,625 I swear, this is the last time I come here. 529 00:38:45,792 --> 00:38:47,167 Just wait and see. 530 00:38:56,708 --> 00:38:58,000 Pierre? 531 00:38:58,167 --> 00:39:00,417 Shh. She needs silence for the ectoplasm to appear. 532 00:39:00,583 --> 00:39:02,083 What? 533 00:39:02,167 --> 00:39:04,542 - Is the radium hurting you? - No, I took it off. 534 00:39:04,708 --> 00:39:08,542 It did prove to heat the flesh. Turned it grey, look. 535 00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:11,000 - There's a lesion. - Pierre. 536 00:39:11,083 --> 00:39:12,917 It's fascinating. 537 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:29,167 She's a complete fraud. 538 00:39:29,250 --> 00:39:32,042 And they have formed some sort of mysterious friendship. 539 00:39:33,667 --> 00:39:35,333 He has promised to weigh her 540 00:39:35,417 --> 00:39:37,250 before, during and after the sessions 541 00:39:37,333 --> 00:39:41,917 to see if there is a spirit that's really... coming in. 542 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,833 - I think you're jealous. - I am not jealous. I'm... 543 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,792 I'm outraged because I think 544 00:39:47,875 --> 00:39:50,958 he should take what we do far more seriously. 545 00:39:52,083 --> 00:39:53,667 - Oh, heavens. Come. - What? 546 00:39:53,750 --> 00:39:55,417 He'll recognise me. 547 00:39:58,208 --> 00:39:59,917 We're on the front of the newspaper. 548 00:40:00,083 --> 00:40:01,292 He'll recognise me. 549 00:40:02,458 --> 00:40:04,208 People can't believe that I'm the sister 550 00:40:04,292 --> 00:40:07,542 - of the famous Madame Curie. - Fame is for idiots. 551 00:40:07,708 --> 00:40:10,833 And look, it seems to have given Pierre some very strange ideas. 552 00:40:10,917 --> 00:40:14,167 Well, allow him to be strange. 553 00:40:14,250 --> 00:40:17,417 - Enjoy his enjoyment. - But spiritualism? 554 00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:19,750 - Faith isn't such a bad thing. - I have faith. 555 00:40:19,833 --> 00:40:22,458 I have faith in humanity, I have faith in progress, 556 00:40:22,625 --> 00:40:23,750 but faith in an afterlife 557 00:40:23,833 --> 00:40:26,833 has no scientific foundation whatsoever. 558 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,333 You never think that Mother might be... 559 00:40:31,292 --> 00:40:33,542 ...somewhere better than this? 560 00:40:33,625 --> 00:40:34,917 I do. 561 00:40:35,958 --> 00:40:38,292 In a hole in the ground, in Poland. 562 00:40:38,375 --> 00:40:40,792 A place far superior to Paris. 563 00:40:40,875 --> 00:40:43,708 Marya, you are so cynical. 564 00:40:43,792 --> 00:40:46,042 No, my dear, just realistic. 565 00:41:00,583 --> 00:41:02,333 Who are you writing to? 566 00:41:03,708 --> 00:41:05,625 They want to give me the Legion of Honour 567 00:41:05,792 --> 00:41:08,708 - so I'm responding. - What's your response? 568 00:41:08,875 --> 00:41:10,750 Well, I've asked them to thank the minister 569 00:41:10,833 --> 00:41:13,292 but I do not feel the need to be decorated at all. 570 00:41:15,542 --> 00:41:18,792 I do, however, have the greatest need for a better laboratory. 571 00:41:21,292 --> 00:41:24,292 - You're coughing a lot. - Am I? 572 00:41:25,167 --> 00:41:26,583 Marie... 573 00:41:32,542 --> 00:41:36,542 Don't take me to hospital. I won't go to hospital. 574 00:41:36,625 --> 00:41:37,917 Well, wait here. 575 00:41:38,083 --> 00:41:39,375 Forceps, please. 576 00:41:39,458 --> 00:41:40,542 No! 577 00:41:40,708 --> 00:41:42,083 Now, I need you to push. 578 00:41:42,167 --> 00:41:44,500 - I can't. I can't. - Just breathe, madame. 579 00:41:44,583 --> 00:41:46,167 It's almost there. 580 00:41:46,250 --> 00:41:47,625 Baby needs to turn. 581 00:41:47,792 --> 00:41:48,833 Shh. 582 00:41:48,917 --> 00:41:52,000 I thought we'd lost her. 583 00:41:52,083 --> 00:41:53,917 The famous Marie Curie needed help 584 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,667 and everyone came running. 585 00:41:55,750 --> 00:41:58,000 She should have died. 586 00:41:58,083 --> 00:41:59,917 But they saved her. 587 00:42:00,958 --> 00:42:02,458 And you. 588 00:42:11,875 --> 00:42:13,292 Eve. 589 00:42:17,667 --> 00:42:18,708 Irène. 590 00:42:19,750 --> 00:42:21,667 What are you thinking about? 591 00:42:22,875 --> 00:42:24,625 I don't know. 592 00:42:27,417 --> 00:42:29,250 You're not thinking about anything? 593 00:42:30,750 --> 00:42:31,750 I don't know. 594 00:42:32,750 --> 00:42:35,917 You must always be thinking about something. 595 00:42:38,917 --> 00:42:40,292 What are you thinking about? 596 00:42:41,792 --> 00:42:44,625 Things you're too young to understand. 597 00:42:55,875 --> 00:42:58,375 Our work has been nominated for the Nobel Prize. 598 00:42:59,708 --> 00:43:02,292 For our discovery of radioactivity. 599 00:43:05,292 --> 00:43:09,417 The commendation only mentions my name. 600 00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:11,625 - And... - And? 601 00:43:11,792 --> 00:43:15,500 And I told them if there's a Nobel Prize to win, 602 00:43:15,667 --> 00:43:18,167 we win it together. 603 00:43:36,250 --> 00:43:37,833 Oh, Paul, I need a chair. 604 00:43:49,583 --> 00:43:51,417 What time is it? 605 00:43:54,208 --> 00:43:55,250 Ten after twelve. 606 00:43:55,958 --> 00:43:59,958 - What time is it in Sweden? - Ten after twelve. 607 00:44:02,333 --> 00:44:05,583 Are you sure this is where you want to be? 608 00:44:05,667 --> 00:44:07,417 It seems... 609 00:44:09,083 --> 00:44:11,667 It seems the right place. 610 00:44:24,333 --> 00:44:26,250 {\an8}Here the question can be raised 611 00:44:26,333 --> 00:44:28,333 whether mankind will benefit... 612 00:44:30,042 --> 00:44:32,208 Whether mankind benefits... 613 00:44:44,042 --> 00:44:45,458 Are you ready, Mr Curie? 614 00:44:51,792 --> 00:44:53,208 No. 615 00:44:57,958 --> 00:45:01,417 It can be thought that radium may become very dangerous 616 00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:02,792 in criminal hands. 617 00:45:02,958 --> 00:45:05,792 This is Colonel Tibbets on the Enola Gay. 618 00:45:05,875 --> 00:45:07,833 Do you receive, Washington? Over. 619 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,750 'Receiving you, Colonel Tibbets. Over.' 620 00:45:10,917 --> 00:45:12,292 Washington, Captain Robert Lewis 621 00:45:12,375 --> 00:45:15,000 has just informed me Little Boy is now live. 622 00:45:15,167 --> 00:45:16,958 Permission to drop. Over. 623 00:45:17,125 --> 00:45:19,792 'Permission granted, Colonel. Over.' 624 00:45:21,208 --> 00:45:23,875 Here the question can be raised whether mankind 625 00:45:23,958 --> 00:45:27,125 benefits from knowing the secrets of nature, 626 00:45:27,208 --> 00:45:30,042 whether it is ready to profit from them 627 00:45:30,125 --> 00:45:32,708 or whether this knowledge will not be harmful to it. 628 00:45:32,875 --> 00:45:34,333 On my mark. 629 00:45:35,458 --> 00:45:37,375 Three. 630 00:45:37,667 --> 00:45:38,625 Two. 631 00:45:40,667 --> 00:45:41,708 Mark. 632 00:45:46,625 --> 00:45:51,333 The example of the discoveries of Nobel is characteristic 633 00:45:51,417 --> 00:45:53,833 as high-power explosives have enabled man 634 00:45:53,917 --> 00:45:56,167 to perform wonderful work. 635 00:45:56,250 --> 00:45:59,083 They are also a terrible means of destruction 636 00:45:59,167 --> 00:46:01,083 in the hands of great criminals 637 00:46:01,167 --> 00:46:03,208 who would lead the peoples towards war. 638 00:46:15,667 --> 00:46:19,042 I am one of those who believe, with Nobel, 639 00:46:19,125 --> 00:46:22,542 that mankind will derive more good than harm 640 00:46:22,625 --> 00:46:24,667 from these new discoveries. 641 00:47:11,792 --> 00:47:13,000 - You're back. - I am. 642 00:47:14,250 --> 00:47:17,250 And was it everything you hoped it would be? 643 00:47:17,958 --> 00:47:19,042 Yes. 644 00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:23,208 Did you get all the acclamation you felt you deserved? 645 00:47:23,875 --> 00:47:26,542 My speech was entirely about you and your work. 646 00:47:26,625 --> 00:47:28,000 But I'm just the wife, isn't that right? 647 00:47:28,167 --> 00:47:29,542 When have I ever treated you like that? 648 00:47:29,625 --> 00:47:31,167 I am the wife of Pierre Curie. 649 00:47:31,333 --> 00:47:33,542 You said you didn't care about professional accomplishment, 650 00:47:33,625 --> 00:47:35,083 you only cared about achievement. 651 00:47:35,250 --> 00:47:36,792 I was the one who fought... 652 00:47:36,875 --> 00:47:38,125 And I'm doing what a wife should do, 653 00:47:38,208 --> 00:47:40,625 giving you children and keeping your home. 654 00:47:40,708 --> 00:47:42,958 We should get out of Paris. Paris pollutes us both. 655 00:47:43,042 --> 00:47:45,042 How dare you? How dare take my brilliance? 656 00:47:45,125 --> 00:47:46,542 How dare you take their applause? 657 00:47:46,625 --> 00:47:48,458 We should get out and get some air. 658 00:47:48,542 --> 00:47:50,542 "I am one of those who believe, with Nobel, 659 00:47:50,708 --> 00:47:52,625 - "that mankind derives..." - No, I made it clear. 660 00:47:52,792 --> 00:47:53,958 "...more good than harm from the new discoveries." 661 00:47:54,125 --> 00:47:56,792 I made it absolutely clear that it was our work! 662 00:47:56,958 --> 00:47:58,833 You stole my brilliance and you made it your own! 663 00:47:58,917 --> 00:48:00,667 You should never have gone without me! 664 00:48:00,750 --> 00:48:04,083 You had just given birth. You were too ill to travel. 665 00:48:04,250 --> 00:48:06,250 And you didn't even want to go! 666 00:48:06,333 --> 00:48:08,458 What was I supposed to do? 667 00:48:08,542 --> 00:48:10,292 This is bigger than both of us, Marie. 668 00:48:10,458 --> 00:48:13,583 And someone had to be there to represent the achievement! 669 00:48:14,833 --> 00:48:16,583 You never did understand! You were angry 670 00:48:16,667 --> 00:48:19,333 because they didn't want you as one of their own! 671 00:48:20,292 --> 00:48:21,667 Oh, you fathom me so well. 672 00:48:21,833 --> 00:48:23,750 I was angry because they were wrong. 673 00:48:23,833 --> 00:48:25,000 But I never wanted any of this. 674 00:48:25,083 --> 00:48:26,250 I just wanted to do good science. 675 00:48:26,417 --> 00:48:29,667 And didn't I make you a better scientist? 676 00:48:29,750 --> 00:48:32,083 Are we not better scientists together? 677 00:48:32,250 --> 00:48:33,625 Of course we are. 678 00:48:33,708 --> 00:48:35,625 Because you have one of the finest minds I've ever met. 679 00:48:35,708 --> 00:48:37,625 It just so happens that my mind is finer. 680 00:48:37,708 --> 00:48:39,125 Ha! 681 00:48:40,458 --> 00:48:42,375 Your main problem, Marie, is your arrogance. 682 00:48:42,458 --> 00:48:43,417 My main problem is you... 683 00:48:44,667 --> 00:48:47,167 ...and the fact that I love you so utterly. 684 00:49:08,917 --> 00:49:11,667 It's not that I don't understand what there is between us. 685 00:49:11,750 --> 00:49:15,583 It's because I don't understand what my life was without you. 686 00:49:18,500 --> 00:49:21,083 Even when I think of myself as a boy... 687 00:49:22,250 --> 00:49:24,500 ...somehow, you're there. 688 00:49:39,750 --> 00:49:42,917 I wish you'd have been in Sweden with me. 689 00:49:45,042 --> 00:49:47,458 I wish we could have been together. 690 00:50:01,417 --> 00:50:03,250 I'm sick, Marie. 691 00:50:05,292 --> 00:50:07,125 I'm sick. 692 00:50:09,458 --> 00:50:11,292 When I cough, there's blood. 693 00:50:14,875 --> 00:50:18,625 Let's get out of Paris, and rest, and get better. 694 00:50:18,708 --> 00:50:21,708 - What about the lab? - The lab can wait. 695 00:50:23,500 --> 00:50:25,667 - Let's save ourselves. - There's too much to do. 696 00:50:25,750 --> 00:50:28,833 Please, Marie. Please. 697 00:50:55,833 --> 00:50:58,625 Pierre, don't go too far. 698 00:51:01,583 --> 00:51:03,167 Marya. 699 00:51:03,250 --> 00:51:06,000 Marya. Where are you? 700 00:52:47,167 --> 00:52:48,125 Watch out! 701 00:52:55,500 --> 00:52:56,958 Whoa! 702 00:52:57,125 --> 00:52:58,583 Whoa! 703 00:53:48,833 --> 00:53:50,667 Hello, old friend. 704 00:53:59,667 --> 00:54:01,083 Hello. 705 00:58:35,458 --> 00:58:37,625 Good. And we all have copies of that? 706 00:58:46,500 --> 00:58:48,833 Welcome, Madame Curie. 707 00:58:48,917 --> 00:58:51,833 I do not know why I'm here. 708 00:58:51,917 --> 00:58:54,083 You're here because the panel would like to consider you 709 00:58:54,167 --> 00:58:56,125 for Professor Curie's position at the university. 710 00:58:59,833 --> 00:59:02,333 You wish to give me Pierre's seat? 711 00:59:02,417 --> 00:59:04,458 We don't want to give you anything. 712 00:59:05,625 --> 00:59:07,542 We're interviewing a number of candidates 713 00:59:07,708 --> 00:59:09,167 and we thought due consideration should be given 714 00:59:09,250 --> 00:59:10,917 to you taking the post. 715 00:59:11,833 --> 00:59:14,000 And if I don't want the post? 716 00:59:14,083 --> 00:59:16,500 Then that is one less candidate for us to consider. 717 00:59:18,292 --> 00:59:21,708 I'd wish to be considered on my own merits. 718 00:59:21,792 --> 00:59:23,708 If you wish to give it to me out of pity, don't. 719 00:59:23,792 --> 00:59:26,958 If you wish to give it to me to follow some agenda or other, 720 00:59:27,042 --> 00:59:28,083 don't. 721 00:59:31,583 --> 00:59:33,792 - Well, what say you... - I have nothing else to say. 722 00:59:35,167 --> 00:59:39,250 It is not a job I want but it is a job I will take. 723 00:59:39,333 --> 00:59:41,000 And if my science doesn't speak for itself 724 00:59:41,083 --> 00:59:42,917 with regard to my quality 725 00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,375 then you have gravely misunderstood my science. 726 00:59:51,292 --> 00:59:53,708 I apologise, gentlemen. 727 00:59:55,125 --> 00:59:57,208 Characteristic behaviour, I'm afraid. 728 01:00:06,833 --> 01:00:08,292 It's an achievement, Marie. 729 01:00:08,458 --> 01:00:10,667 First female professor at the Sorbonne. 730 01:00:10,833 --> 01:00:14,208 A promotion well overdue for France's, the world's, 731 01:00:14,292 --> 01:00:16,458 first female Nobel Prize winner. 732 01:00:16,542 --> 01:00:19,708 Nobel Prize. Do you remember, I wasn't even nominated? 733 01:00:19,792 --> 01:00:21,375 It was Pierre who fought for me, 734 01:00:21,458 --> 01:00:24,292 who fought for our work to be recognised. 735 01:00:24,375 --> 01:00:26,083 Without him I never would have won. 736 01:00:26,250 --> 01:00:29,458 He was everything to me, and now he's gone, 737 01:00:29,625 --> 01:00:31,417 and I'm... 738 01:00:34,333 --> 01:00:35,708 ...I am lost. 739 01:00:35,875 --> 01:00:38,917 - This will pass, Marie. - No, it won't. 740 01:00:39,083 --> 01:00:41,750 - You're being very strong. - I'm bored of strong. 741 01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,333 I don't want to be strong. I want to be weak. 742 01:00:45,875 --> 01:00:47,083 Well, Pierre wouldn't want that. 743 01:00:47,250 --> 01:00:49,625 You think you can talk for him? 744 01:00:55,167 --> 01:00:56,625 I miss him, too. 745 01:01:05,542 --> 01:01:07,083 Right, here she comes. 746 01:01:13,125 --> 01:01:14,625 Bravo. 747 01:01:30,708 --> 01:01:32,417 I want to tell you about radium. 748 01:01:34,333 --> 01:01:39,208 A most peculiar and remarkable element, 749 01:01:39,375 --> 01:01:42,917 because it does not behave as it should. 750 01:01:44,792 --> 01:01:47,833 {\an8}Ladies and gentlemen, will you take your seats, please? 751 01:01:51,417 --> 01:01:54,875 It's very important that you put your goggles on. 752 01:02:32,458 --> 01:02:34,500 We call this place the Doom Town. 753 01:02:34,667 --> 01:02:37,000 It seems an extraordinary amount of work. 754 01:03:13,833 --> 01:03:17,000 The dummies are dressed by JC Penney. 755 01:03:17,167 --> 01:03:19,917 Better dressed than me, the boys and I joke. 756 01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,833 Do things need to be this precise? 757 01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,333 Pretty cool, huh? 758 01:03:56,583 --> 01:03:58,167 Oh, no, no... 759 01:03:58,250 --> 01:04:00,583 Oh, sorry, everyone. 760 01:04:00,667 --> 01:04:03,083 - It's no problem. - I do apologise. 761 01:04:06,250 --> 01:04:07,500 Glasses. 762 01:05:31,417 --> 01:05:35,250 There are those that say that my radium is making them sick. 763 01:05:38,292 --> 01:05:40,042 Are you sick? 764 01:05:40,125 --> 01:05:41,708 No. 765 01:05:42,625 --> 01:05:44,125 You? 766 01:05:44,208 --> 01:05:45,792 Yes. 767 01:05:45,875 --> 01:05:47,083 Anaemia. 768 01:05:48,250 --> 01:05:51,250 But there's no proof. There's no proof. 769 01:05:52,208 --> 01:05:54,208 There are those that say 770 01:05:54,292 --> 01:05:56,292 that it might be the thing that weakened my Pierre, 771 01:05:56,375 --> 01:05:58,417 that made him unable to roll out of the way. 772 01:05:58,583 --> 01:06:01,208 Pierre's skull was crushed. 773 01:06:01,292 --> 01:06:05,042 He wasn't... radium wouldn't have caused that. 774 01:06:06,792 --> 01:06:10,458 I can't do anything without him. 775 01:06:10,542 --> 01:06:12,625 - He'd want you to. - I know. 776 01:06:12,708 --> 01:06:16,958 He'd expect it of you. I expect it of you, too. 777 01:06:17,042 --> 01:06:21,208 You are the best woman I've ever met. 778 01:06:21,292 --> 01:06:23,292 The best person. 779 01:06:26,292 --> 01:06:28,292 I know what you have lost, Marie. 780 01:06:29,458 --> 01:06:30,792 Pierre once said to me 781 01:06:30,875 --> 01:06:33,875 that he couldn't imagine life without me. 782 01:06:36,625 --> 01:06:39,292 And I never said anything back. 783 01:06:40,500 --> 01:06:42,333 And I should have. 784 01:07:39,917 --> 01:07:41,917 Do you need feeding? 785 01:07:42,542 --> 01:07:43,667 No. 786 01:07:44,458 --> 01:07:46,042 Well, run along then. 787 01:08:08,250 --> 01:08:09,625 The Polish woman... 788 01:08:09,708 --> 01:08:11,875 Extraordinary how she fancies she is appearing... 789 01:08:20,250 --> 01:08:24,750 Radioactivity is the spontaneous emission of radiation 790 01:08:24,833 --> 01:08:27,832 or particles from the decay of nuclei, 791 01:08:27,917 --> 01:08:29,417 which, due to a particular arrangement 792 01:08:29,500 --> 01:08:32,625 of their internal structure, are far more unstable. 793 01:08:38,500 --> 01:08:41,625 It refers to particles which are emitted from nuclei 794 01:08:41,707 --> 01:08:44,750 as a result of nuclear instability. 795 01:08:45,707 --> 01:08:47,542 That's all. Thank you. 796 01:09:03,667 --> 01:09:06,167 - It's not as bad as it sounds. - Do we know who's involved? 797 01:09:06,250 --> 01:09:08,167 - There are two. - Two? 798 01:09:08,250 --> 01:09:11,250 Marcel Demalander and Maurice Demenitroux. 799 01:09:11,332 --> 01:09:12,917 They were preparing thorium X. 800 01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:16,750 - Thorium X, for who? - Some factory outside Paris. 801 01:09:16,832 --> 01:09:18,417 Maurice had been ill for quite some time. 802 01:09:18,500 --> 01:09:20,582 - With what? - Leukaemia. 803 01:09:20,667 --> 01:09:21,750 And Marcel? 804 01:09:21,832 --> 01:09:24,667 He has anaemia. Severe anaemia. 805 01:09:25,582 --> 01:09:27,000 And there is a direct link? 806 01:09:27,082 --> 01:09:28,500 Well, of course there's a direct link. 807 01:09:28,582 --> 01:09:30,750 These are radiation-led complications. 808 01:09:30,832 --> 01:09:34,832 These cases are appearing with greater and greater regularity. 809 01:09:34,917 --> 01:09:36,667 We were never unaware. 810 01:09:36,750 --> 01:09:39,167 Well, now we need to be more aware. 811 01:09:50,250 --> 01:09:53,417 Lost your husband so thought you'd take mine? 812 01:09:53,500 --> 01:09:55,542 The great Marie Curie. 813 01:09:56,167 --> 01:09:58,167 Reduced to a thief. 814 01:09:59,457 --> 01:10:00,875 Oh! 815 01:10:03,792 --> 01:10:04,708 No. 816 01:10:05,917 --> 01:10:07,542 You're not Marie Curie. 817 01:10:08,542 --> 01:10:11,625 You don't even deserve that name. 818 01:10:11,708 --> 01:10:16,458 Your name is Marya Sklodowska and you are Polish. 819 01:10:17,417 --> 01:10:20,250 A dirty Pole. 820 01:10:20,333 --> 01:10:23,458 The dirty Pole that invented a poison 821 01:10:23,625 --> 01:10:26,750 that the world thought marvellous! 822 01:10:27,625 --> 01:10:30,458 But I know what you are! 823 01:10:51,167 --> 01:10:53,125 I heard her. 824 01:10:53,292 --> 01:10:54,292 And yet you stayed inside? 825 01:10:55,500 --> 01:10:59,583 You wanted me to join you out there, and add wood to the fire? 826 01:10:59,667 --> 01:11:03,792 The logical thing was to stay inside, so I stayed inside. 827 01:11:12,667 --> 01:11:14,708 I'm sorry she said those things. 828 01:11:15,125 --> 01:11:16,500 Don't be. 829 01:11:18,042 --> 01:11:20,958 - Marie? - What? 830 01:11:22,458 --> 01:11:24,625 What do we do now? 831 01:11:29,167 --> 01:11:33,167 Four pages in this piece of nationalist rubbish. 832 01:11:33,250 --> 01:11:35,958 His wife hired a private detective. 833 01:11:36,125 --> 01:11:38,417 They stole our letters. 834 01:11:38,500 --> 01:11:40,625 She gave them to the papers and encouraged them to print them. 835 01:11:40,708 --> 01:11:42,542 It was little bits of advice I gave him, 836 01:11:42,625 --> 01:11:44,625 mainly on denying her pleasure. 837 01:11:45,375 --> 01:11:46,792 The papers seem outraged 838 01:11:46,875 --> 01:11:49,417 by the idea that women might have pleasure in their lives. 839 01:11:49,500 --> 01:11:51,375 But these intimate pleasures... 840 01:11:53,042 --> 01:11:55,708 - You're talking here of... - Of sex, yes. 841 01:11:55,792 --> 01:11:57,208 Did she really just say that? 842 01:11:57,292 --> 01:11:59,750 I've shocked you. 843 01:11:59,833 --> 01:12:01,458 - Marie... - And everyone else. 844 01:12:01,625 --> 01:12:03,833 You haven't shocked me. 845 01:12:03,917 --> 01:12:05,833 You just shouldn't be writing about these things. 846 01:12:05,917 --> 01:12:08,667 They're... intimate. 847 01:12:10,333 --> 01:12:12,500 They're not to be written of. 848 01:12:13,792 --> 01:12:17,375 - People are looking. - They've always looked. 849 01:12:19,625 --> 01:12:22,125 Not like this. Not with hate. 850 01:12:27,125 --> 01:12:30,625 She shows no remorse. 851 01:12:30,708 --> 01:12:32,708 Typical Pole. 852 01:12:36,042 --> 01:12:39,625 Get out of France, you filthy immigrant! 853 01:12:39,708 --> 01:12:41,792 Polish scum! 854 01:12:41,875 --> 01:12:44,542 Go back to your own country! 855 01:12:44,625 --> 01:12:46,208 Dirty Pole! 856 01:12:54,583 --> 01:12:57,000 Jews are all the same! 857 01:13:07,292 --> 01:13:09,458 Marie, may I have a word? 858 01:13:09,542 --> 01:13:12,042 - Can't it wait? - No. 859 01:13:20,875 --> 01:13:23,417 She's told me if I go home this can all be over. 860 01:13:24,750 --> 01:13:27,000 I'm thoroughly convinced this will never be over. 861 01:13:29,667 --> 01:13:32,333 I don't want her to hurt you anymore. 862 01:13:39,083 --> 01:13:41,500 I think the damage to me is probably permanent 863 01:13:41,583 --> 01:13:43,167 whatever you persuade her to do. 864 01:13:45,208 --> 01:13:48,458 Marie, you said you would never love me. 865 01:13:51,042 --> 01:13:52,792 - Pierre wouldn't want me... - I would say it's a mistake 866 01:13:52,875 --> 01:13:55,625 to cite his name in this conversation, wouldn't you? 867 01:13:55,708 --> 01:13:58,042 You're not abandoning me. I'm not a lost dog. 868 01:13:58,125 --> 01:14:01,042 You're just leaving me to find my own way. 869 01:14:01,125 --> 01:14:03,042 - Now go, be valiant. - Marie... 870 01:14:03,125 --> 01:14:05,167 Just don't ask me to pity you as you do so. 871 01:14:43,917 --> 01:14:45,750 They've closed it. 872 01:14:46,375 --> 01:14:47,875 She died... 873 01:14:49,292 --> 01:14:51,042 ...so they closed it. 874 01:15:00,583 --> 01:15:03,667 I never thought this place, I never thought... 875 01:15:04,542 --> 01:15:07,208 ...what she did had any merit. 876 01:15:07,292 --> 01:15:09,125 You're a scientist. 877 01:15:09,958 --> 01:15:12,125 She was an artist 878 01:15:12,208 --> 01:15:15,125 or... a something. 879 01:15:15,208 --> 01:15:18,042 I don't know quite what she was. 880 01:15:18,125 --> 01:15:19,542 She died? 881 01:15:21,500 --> 01:15:22,958 Loie, will you help me? 882 01:15:24,375 --> 01:15:28,375 I didn't understand this place and you did, and I... 883 01:15:29,542 --> 01:15:32,542 Can you do what she did? 884 01:15:32,625 --> 01:15:35,083 I'd like you to make my husband appear. 885 01:15:35,250 --> 01:15:37,583 I don't think even she promised that. 886 01:15:38,667 --> 01:15:40,625 Please will you make my husband appear? 887 01:15:43,708 --> 01:15:46,125 Please will you make my husband appear? 888 01:15:46,208 --> 01:15:48,042 Please will you make my husband appear? 889 01:15:48,208 --> 01:15:49,958 Please will you make my husband appear? 890 01:15:50,042 --> 01:15:51,958 Please will you make my husband appear? 891 01:15:52,042 --> 01:15:54,042 Please will you make my husband appear? 892 01:15:54,125 --> 01:15:56,125 Please will you make my husband appear? 893 01:15:56,292 --> 01:15:59,042 Please will you make my hus... hus... 894 01:16:01,667 --> 01:16:04,417 Please can you... make... my... husband appear? 895 01:16:04,500 --> 01:16:08,708 Please can you make my husband appear? 896 01:16:49,083 --> 01:16:51,250 - Come on! - Come on, come on. 897 01:16:51,417 --> 01:16:53,500 Get him out! Go, go, go! 898 01:16:54,625 --> 01:16:56,167 Straight ahead. 899 01:17:44,833 --> 01:17:47,250 So, he's leaving you? 900 01:17:49,500 --> 01:17:52,083 He was... not strong enough. 901 01:17:53,708 --> 01:17:57,833 He's certainly not strong enough for the press. 902 01:17:57,917 --> 01:17:59,333 These so-called nationalists 903 01:17:59,417 --> 01:18:01,083 calling you a dirty Pole, dirty Jew. 904 01:18:01,250 --> 01:18:02,708 I've tried to tell them I'm a dirty Catholic, 905 01:18:02,792 --> 01:18:05,000 and a dirty lapsed Catholic at that, but... 906 01:18:07,708 --> 01:18:09,125 ...they won't listen. 907 01:18:13,417 --> 01:18:14,917 Marya... 908 01:18:16,583 --> 01:18:18,833 ...I'm going home. 909 01:18:18,917 --> 01:18:20,667 To Poland. 910 01:18:21,833 --> 01:18:23,833 - Will you come with me? - I belong here. 911 01:18:23,917 --> 01:18:26,083 Well, they don't think so. 912 01:18:26,167 --> 01:18:27,917 France is Irène and Eve's home. 913 01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:31,083 Irène and Eve would love Poland. 914 01:18:31,167 --> 01:18:33,250 My work is here. 915 01:18:33,333 --> 01:18:35,167 Poland has changed. 916 01:18:35,250 --> 01:18:38,000 You would be venerated, celebrated. 917 01:18:38,083 --> 01:18:40,083 Pierre is buried here. 918 01:18:42,417 --> 01:18:47,667 They stand outside your house screaming for you to leave. 919 01:18:52,875 --> 01:18:54,625 When have other people's opinions ever affected 920 01:18:54,708 --> 01:18:56,250 anything I've done? 921 01:18:57,292 --> 01:18:59,292 - Go home! - France for the French! 922 01:18:59,375 --> 01:19:00,792 Polish scum! 923 01:19:15,042 --> 01:19:16,042 Rotten Pole! 924 01:19:17,667 --> 01:19:18,958 Dirty Jew! 925 01:20:06,083 --> 01:20:08,083 Your growth is slowing, Eve. 926 01:20:08,167 --> 01:20:09,333 Is it? 927 01:20:09,500 --> 01:20:13,208 And Irène is growing faster than ever. 928 01:20:13,292 --> 01:20:17,042 Well, I've big teeth. 929 01:20:17,125 --> 01:20:18,083 So you do. 930 01:20:24,458 --> 01:20:27,167 - Telegram, madame. - Thank you. 931 01:20:34,417 --> 01:20:35,292 Interesting? 932 01:20:36,792 --> 01:20:40,042 The Royal Swedish Academy of Science has seen fit to... 933 01:20:40,208 --> 01:20:44,042 I have been awarded the Nobel Prize again. 934 01:20:44,125 --> 01:20:45,792 This time for chemistry. 935 01:20:45,875 --> 01:20:48,958 - For what? - For my extraction 936 01:20:49,042 --> 01:20:51,542 of the elements of radium and polonium. 937 01:20:51,625 --> 01:20:54,042 - Congratulations, Mother. - Congratulations, Mother. 938 01:20:54,125 --> 01:20:55,875 And they have suggested that I do not come 939 01:20:55,958 --> 01:20:58,625 to avoid unnecessary controversy. 940 01:21:00,625 --> 01:21:02,042 Well... 941 01:21:06,625 --> 01:21:09,208 Here, let me measure your head, Eve. 942 01:21:10,625 --> 01:21:12,375 Come here, sweetie. 943 01:21:39,875 --> 01:21:43,083 We were so pleased you were able to make it to Sweden, Mrs Curie. 944 01:21:43,875 --> 01:21:46,708 - Were you? - Oh, yes. 945 01:21:46,792 --> 01:21:48,958 The Women's Movement in Stockholm 946 01:21:49,042 --> 01:21:51,625 supported you with great strength and conviction. 947 01:21:54,083 --> 01:21:55,458 Have you all that you need? 948 01:22:06,958 --> 01:22:10,958 Yes, I have... everything I need. 949 01:22:15,708 --> 01:22:18,500 - They don't like you here. - Nonsense. 950 01:22:18,667 --> 01:22:20,250 They're merely having a hard time 951 01:22:20,333 --> 01:22:24,000 separating my scientific life from my personal life. 952 01:22:25,458 --> 01:22:28,042 Why don't they like your personal life? 953 01:22:30,500 --> 01:22:33,833 What will you talk of, in your speech? 954 01:22:33,917 --> 01:22:36,750 - Personal things? - No. 955 01:22:38,583 --> 01:22:41,375 The chemistry of the imponderable. 956 01:23:07,833 --> 01:23:09,750 - Bravo! - Bravo. 957 01:23:09,833 --> 01:23:11,708 Bravo, Madame Curie. 958 01:23:11,875 --> 01:23:13,583 Bravo. 959 01:23:13,750 --> 01:23:15,958 Bravo. 960 01:23:19,333 --> 01:23:20,917 Bravo! 961 01:23:44,250 --> 01:23:46,500 Some 15 years ago 962 01:23:46,583 --> 01:23:51,500 the radiation of uranium was discovered by Henri Becquerel 963 01:23:51,583 --> 01:23:54,750 and two years later the study of this phenomenon 964 01:23:54,833 --> 01:24:00,250 was extended to other substances, first by me 965 01:24:00,333 --> 01:24:03,167 and then by Pierre Curie... 966 01:24:09,917 --> 01:24:11,042 ...and myself. 967 01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:18,875 'This study rapidly led us to the discovery of new elements 968 01:24:18,958 --> 01:24:20,125 'the radiation of which, 969 01:24:20,208 --> 01:24:23,208 'while being analogous to that of uranium, 970 01:24:23,292 --> 01:24:25,875 'was far more intense. 971 01:24:30,167 --> 01:24:31,917 'Thanks to this discovery 972 01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:35,917 'of new, very powerfully radioactive substances 973 01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:38,500 'the study of radioactivity 974 01:24:38,583 --> 01:24:41,250 'progresses with marvellous rapidity.' 975 01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:56,750 Irène, where are you taking me? 976 01:24:56,833 --> 01:24:59,208 Wait and see, Mama. 977 01:25:02,375 --> 01:25:03,542 Stop here, driver. 978 01:25:10,250 --> 01:25:11,917 - Irène, I won't... - I know. 979 01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:13,833 - Then why am I here? - Because you need to see it. 980 01:25:17,500 --> 01:25:19,417 You think the war is something separate to you? 981 01:25:19,500 --> 01:25:20,833 Of course it is. 982 01:25:20,917 --> 01:25:23,083 You think you can't help? 983 01:25:23,167 --> 01:25:25,500 Irène, I'm ill. I'm female. 984 01:25:25,583 --> 01:25:27,583 I can't see myself being much use to anyone. 985 01:25:27,667 --> 01:25:28,833 But give me a gun and I'll try. 986 01:25:28,917 --> 01:25:30,833 This country is at war. 987 01:25:30,917 --> 01:25:32,500 And the medical services are a disaster. 988 01:25:32,583 --> 01:25:35,000 I won't go inside your hospital. 989 01:25:36,375 --> 01:25:37,958 I know, Mother. 990 01:25:39,417 --> 01:25:42,500 So I'm bringing it outside to you. 991 01:26:03,667 --> 01:26:05,250 - This is Franck. - Hello, Franck. 992 01:26:06,583 --> 01:26:08,917 He's had both his legs amputated. 993 01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,125 This is Pascal. 994 01:26:12,917 --> 01:26:14,500 Hello, Pascal. 995 01:26:14,583 --> 01:26:17,333 He's had both his arms amputated. 996 01:26:17,417 --> 01:26:19,000 - Irène... - And this is Gabriel. 997 01:26:19,500 --> 01:26:21,208 Irène! 998 01:26:25,542 --> 01:26:28,125 I don't want to look at them like exhibits in a museum. 999 01:26:28,208 --> 01:26:29,958 They are chopping these boys up. 1000 01:26:30,042 --> 01:26:31,625 They don't have the facilities to do otherwise. 1001 01:26:31,708 --> 01:26:35,625 It's tragic. What do you want me to do about it? 1002 01:26:35,708 --> 01:26:38,458 You're Marie Curie. 1003 01:26:38,542 --> 01:26:41,125 It's time to make this war your war. 1004 01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:43,417 Please. 1005 01:26:51,333 --> 01:26:53,750 As Senior Science Minister in the Government, 1006 01:26:53,833 --> 01:26:56,250 - I must tell you... - Young boys are dying. 1007 01:26:56,333 --> 01:26:57,750 As Senior Scientist Minister... 1008 01:26:57,833 --> 01:26:59,167 Science. Science Minister. 1009 01:26:59,250 --> 01:27:01,833 My apologies, Senior Science Minister. 1010 01:27:01,917 --> 01:27:04,500 I see your sense of superiority has stayed with you. 1011 01:27:04,583 --> 01:27:06,958 Professor Lippmann, you have never liked me. 1012 01:27:07,042 --> 01:27:08,875 It's not a question of liking or disliking. 1013 01:27:09,042 --> 01:27:10,500 Quite. It's a question of respect, 1014 01:27:10,583 --> 01:27:11,625 and you have respected me now. 1015 01:27:11,917 --> 01:27:15,167 With a mobile radiography unit, we can be X-raying troops 1016 01:27:15,250 --> 01:27:17,167 before deciding whether they need amputation. 1017 01:27:17,250 --> 01:27:18,208 Surely you can see... 1018 01:27:18,500 --> 01:27:20,583 Madame Curie, all I can see is an impractical measure 1019 01:27:20,667 --> 01:27:23,000 proposed by a woman I know to be eminently practical. 1020 01:27:23,083 --> 01:27:25,417 I need funds, I need access, 1021 01:27:25,500 --> 01:27:27,500 I need the ability to go out on the battlefields. 1022 01:27:27,583 --> 01:27:28,958 You must grant it me. 1023 01:27:29,125 --> 01:27:30,583 And why, pray, must I do that? 1024 01:27:30,750 --> 01:27:33,875 Partly because it is right. Partly because I am needed. 1025 01:27:34,042 --> 01:27:37,083 But mostly, mostly because I am sick and tired. 1026 01:27:37,167 --> 01:27:40,583 I cough blood most nights and this is my last fight. 1027 01:27:40,667 --> 01:27:42,583 And I will win it. 1028 01:27:43,792 --> 01:27:46,042 We're both tired, Madame Curie. 1029 01:28:02,292 --> 01:28:03,625 Mother, if you could look at him 1030 01:28:03,708 --> 01:28:05,125 like he hasn't done you a personal affront, 1031 01:28:05,208 --> 01:28:06,958 - I'd greatly appreciate it. - I don't mind. 1032 01:28:07,042 --> 01:28:08,875 Course you do. 1033 01:28:08,958 --> 01:28:12,292 You just won't say because you're mild-mannered. 1034 01:28:12,375 --> 01:28:16,042 But Mother isn't so fierce as she can't adjust her behaviour. 1035 01:28:16,208 --> 01:28:18,292 - You have a PhD? - This isn't a job interview. 1036 01:28:18,458 --> 01:28:20,917 - Do you have a PhD? - Shut up, Eve! 1037 01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,167 I do. I do have a PhD. 1038 01:28:23,250 --> 01:28:24,792 - And your thesis was on? - Mother! 1039 01:28:24,958 --> 01:28:26,833 Mr Joliot, do you have interesting observations 1040 01:28:26,917 --> 01:28:29,583 to make about the weather, about... the political system, 1041 01:28:29,667 --> 01:28:31,875 about the transport system? 1042 01:28:32,042 --> 01:28:33,583 No. 1043 01:28:33,667 --> 01:28:34,917 Do you love science? 1044 01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:38,167 Of course I love science. 1045 01:28:39,333 --> 01:28:41,625 I love your daughter and I love science. 1046 01:28:41,792 --> 01:28:43,250 He loves your daughter. 1047 01:28:44,542 --> 01:28:46,292 Let us take your love for my daughter as read 1048 01:28:46,375 --> 01:28:47,292 and talk of science. 1049 01:28:48,833 --> 01:28:50,333 I would love to. 1050 01:28:50,417 --> 01:28:51,750 You are impossible. 1051 01:28:51,833 --> 01:28:55,083 So, tell me what you have been working on, Mr Joliot. 1052 01:28:55,167 --> 01:28:57,750 I've been working with Irène, actually. 1053 01:28:57,833 --> 01:28:59,750 We've been working in the belief 1054 01:28:59,833 --> 01:29:03,917 that maybe radioactivity can be taken a few steps further. 1055 01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:05,458 Can it now? 1056 01:29:06,375 --> 01:29:07,875 Carry on. 1057 01:29:07,958 --> 01:29:10,042 In those atoms where radioactivity 1058 01:29:10,125 --> 01:29:14,208 doesn't naturally occur, maybe it can be induced. 1059 01:29:14,292 --> 01:29:15,792 What have you been working with? 1060 01:29:15,875 --> 01:29:18,333 Lighter elements, boron and aluminium. 1061 01:29:18,500 --> 01:29:20,708 We're bombarding them with alpha particles 1062 01:29:20,792 --> 01:29:23,208 and getting a reading after we stopped. 1063 01:29:23,292 --> 01:29:24,667 If we can show the reaction... 1064 01:29:24,833 --> 01:29:26,375 Then you have shown the possibility 1065 01:29:26,458 --> 01:29:28,125 of artificial radiation. 1066 01:29:32,125 --> 01:29:33,667 This is exciting work. 1067 01:29:34,458 --> 01:29:36,042 I think so, too. 1068 01:29:38,292 --> 01:29:39,542 I think we like him. 1069 01:30:50,875 --> 01:30:52,625 I will get those ambulances. 1070 01:30:52,792 --> 01:30:56,833 And I will outfit them and I will get them ready 1071 01:30:56,917 --> 01:30:58,792 but I won't work on them. 1072 01:30:59,792 --> 01:31:02,833 And I don't want you to either. 1073 01:31:02,917 --> 01:31:03,833 But, Mother... 1074 01:31:03,917 --> 01:31:06,917 No, death is not good for a young person to see. 1075 01:31:08,833 --> 01:31:11,333 And I don't think you should be involved with Frédéric's work. 1076 01:31:12,958 --> 01:31:16,833 As exciting as it seems, radiation is not safe. And... 1077 01:31:18,042 --> 01:31:19,792 In fact, I want you to stay away from him. 1078 01:31:19,875 --> 01:31:21,292 But you've spent your entire life... 1079 01:31:21,375 --> 01:31:23,125 Surrounded by death and radiation. 1080 01:31:23,208 --> 01:31:24,958 Yes. And... 1081 01:31:26,958 --> 01:31:28,833 ...they've brought me very little happiness. 1082 01:31:31,292 --> 01:31:33,125 I want better for you. 1083 01:31:43,292 --> 01:31:45,042 Night-night. 1084 01:31:54,417 --> 01:31:56,250 Madame Curie. 1085 01:31:57,583 --> 01:31:59,167 Mademoiselle Curie. 1086 01:32:00,750 --> 01:32:04,917 What an honour it is for you to grace me with your presence. 1087 01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:06,417 Hm. 1088 01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:18,333 Your exploits are a credit to France, madame. 1089 01:32:20,917 --> 01:32:22,625 We are here to ask for funds. 1090 01:32:22,792 --> 01:32:26,917 Ah, yes. Professor Lippmann has explained to me your situation. 1091 01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:31,667 I'm afraid your request for funds cannot be granted. 1092 01:32:39,958 --> 01:32:41,708 Consider these as part payment. 1093 01:32:43,583 --> 01:32:45,833 Melt them down, use them for the war effort. 1094 01:32:45,917 --> 01:32:47,667 These are your Nobel Prizes, madame. 1095 01:32:47,750 --> 01:32:50,000 And they're made of pure gold. 1096 01:32:50,083 --> 01:32:51,625 Which is a start, don't you think? 1097 01:32:53,625 --> 01:32:56,542 Madame Curie, these prizes are the pride of France, 1098 01:32:56,625 --> 01:32:58,042 - I will not... - These prizes are the result 1099 01:32:58,125 --> 01:33:00,792 of pain and they seem to have caused pain. 1100 01:33:00,875 --> 01:33:02,792 And I would rather they be used for something useful, 1101 01:33:02,875 --> 01:33:06,083 like curing others from pain. 1102 01:33:07,542 --> 01:33:08,792 Well, I think this is... 1103 01:33:09,042 --> 01:33:12,458 Boys are having their legs sawn off because of sprained ankles. 1104 01:33:12,542 --> 01:33:16,292 My X-ray machines, properly installed, can save lives. 1105 01:33:16,375 --> 01:33:18,875 We will also use radon radiation to cauterise wounds. 1106 01:33:18,958 --> 01:33:22,292 It is quick, efficient and can stop blood loss. 1107 01:33:22,375 --> 01:33:23,292 But radon... 1108 01:33:23,375 --> 01:33:27,167 Our proposals will give you more men on your battlefields. 1109 01:33:27,333 --> 01:33:28,917 But radon is a gas, Madame Curie. 1110 01:33:29,083 --> 01:33:30,292 I am perfectly aware of that. 1111 01:33:30,375 --> 01:33:34,125 And that's why we will use bulbs. Radon bulbs. 1112 01:33:35,625 --> 01:33:37,875 The Minister of War has made his position clear. 1113 01:33:37,958 --> 01:33:41,458 Then let me make mine clear. 1114 01:33:41,542 --> 01:33:43,458 I will go to the press. 1115 01:33:43,542 --> 01:33:46,458 I will offer them my Nobel Prize metal. 1116 01:33:46,542 --> 01:33:48,250 I will give them the same ultimatum. 1117 01:33:48,417 --> 01:33:49,375 The press? 1118 01:33:49,625 --> 01:33:51,958 I know perfectly well what the press is capable of. 1119 01:33:52,042 --> 01:33:56,042 And I believe that I have learnt how to use it to my advantage. 1120 01:33:56,125 --> 01:34:00,667 Now, will you please give me my X-ray machines and ambulances? 1121 01:34:12,708 --> 01:34:16,458 You're quite a competent driver. Who taught you? 1122 01:34:16,542 --> 01:34:18,208 I learned. 1123 01:34:20,333 --> 01:34:22,375 I wasn't much of a mother, was I? 1124 01:34:23,750 --> 01:34:26,375 What does that have to do with anything right now? 1125 01:34:26,542 --> 01:34:28,917 I'm very proud of you. 1126 01:34:29,792 --> 01:34:31,083 Thank you. 1127 01:34:31,250 --> 01:34:33,708 I'm very proud of you, too. 1128 01:34:33,875 --> 01:34:35,917 It must have been so difficult, 1129 01:34:36,083 --> 01:34:38,958 being a woman and doing all that you did. 1130 01:34:39,042 --> 01:34:40,958 Believe me, my love, I suffered much more 1131 01:34:41,042 --> 01:34:43,292 from lack of resources and funds 1132 01:34:43,375 --> 01:34:44,750 than I ever did from being a woman. 1133 01:34:45,917 --> 01:34:47,583 Now, are you still working with Frédéric 1134 01:34:47,667 --> 01:34:50,583 on his artificial radiation theory? 1135 01:34:50,667 --> 01:34:52,917 It's not his theory. 1136 01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:55,000 It's ours. 1137 01:34:55,083 --> 01:34:58,750 And of course I'm still working with Frédéric. 1138 01:34:58,833 --> 01:35:01,833 Now, can we concentrate on the matter in hand? 1139 01:35:01,917 --> 01:35:03,292 Absolutely. 1140 01:35:07,042 --> 01:35:08,208 Mama. 1141 01:35:08,292 --> 01:35:10,792 Help me with this. It's very heavy. 1142 01:35:13,958 --> 01:35:17,125 Now, if you check the bulb. And be careful, it's delicate. 1143 01:35:17,208 --> 01:35:18,167 Of course. 1144 01:35:20,500 --> 01:35:22,750 Get the water! 1145 01:35:22,833 --> 01:35:23,750 There's been a fire. 1146 01:35:23,917 --> 01:35:25,625 We need everyone. Quickly now. 1147 01:35:25,792 --> 01:35:28,000 We're just outfitting this ambulance. 1148 01:35:28,083 --> 01:35:29,250 You don't understand. 1149 01:35:29,333 --> 01:35:31,208 We need everyone. Get in the van. Help. 1150 01:35:32,083 --> 01:35:34,917 Mother, the time has come. 1151 01:35:48,458 --> 01:35:50,292 Morphine here! 1152 01:35:54,167 --> 01:35:55,417 A red ribbon for him? 1153 01:35:55,583 --> 01:35:58,167 We have to make rational decisions about who we can save. 1154 01:35:58,250 --> 01:35:59,833 They say they can't save him. 1155 01:35:59,917 --> 01:36:02,583 - What do you think? - What? 1156 01:36:02,667 --> 01:36:04,000 Irène, you're only 18 years old 1157 01:36:04,167 --> 01:36:07,167 but you're the most capable doctor here. What do you think? 1158 01:36:10,208 --> 01:36:12,667 I think we should take him to hospital. 1159 01:37:33,292 --> 01:37:37,458 'Marya, are you frightened?' 1160 01:40:03,417 --> 01:40:04,917 Water? 1161 01:40:06,042 --> 01:40:07,875 Sorry? 1162 01:40:10,750 --> 01:40:12,833 Would you like some water? 1163 01:40:15,417 --> 01:40:17,917 I hate hospitals. 1164 01:40:18,000 --> 01:40:20,583 I know. 1165 01:40:20,667 --> 01:40:23,208 I had to say goodbye to my mother in a hospital. 1166 01:40:25,667 --> 01:40:27,083 I know. 1167 01:40:29,000 --> 01:40:31,000 So I found a way of making people better 1168 01:40:31,083 --> 01:40:32,417 from outside a hospital. 1169 01:40:34,125 --> 01:40:35,958 You did. 1170 01:40:36,875 --> 01:40:38,625 I did, didn't I? 1171 01:40:39,708 --> 01:40:41,292 Didn't I? 1172 01:40:43,667 --> 01:40:45,958 I think we should leave here, don't you? 1173 01:40:46,792 --> 01:40:49,542 No, there's too much to do. 1174 01:40:57,708 --> 01:41:00,208 Well, let's start by leaving the hospital. 1175 01:41:06,042 --> 01:41:08,792 I used to have such beautiful hands. 1176 01:41:08,875 --> 01:41:11,542 The radiation has crippled your bones. 1177 01:41:13,625 --> 01:41:17,292 The things that make us weak are the things that make us strong. 1178 01:41:17,375 --> 01:41:20,542 - I didn't make you weak. - Of course you did. 1179 01:41:20,625 --> 01:41:21,542 But I couldn't have... 1180 01:41:21,625 --> 01:41:23,708 Well, we couldn't have done what we did without each other. 1181 01:41:23,792 --> 01:41:26,042 No, you did the extraordinary. 1182 01:41:26,125 --> 01:41:27,625 You changed the world. 1183 01:41:27,792 --> 01:41:30,000 In the right way? 1184 01:41:30,083 --> 01:41:31,167 I'd rather be someone 1185 01:41:31,250 --> 01:41:32,667 that hopes the world is full of light 1186 01:41:32,750 --> 01:41:34,625 than fears for the darkness out there, wouldn't you? 1187 01:41:34,792 --> 01:41:35,667 But I... 1188 01:41:35,750 --> 01:41:37,750 You threw a stone in the water. 1189 01:41:37,833 --> 01:41:40,250 The ripples, you can't control. 1190 01:41:41,792 --> 01:41:44,167 There are things to be scared of, but... 1191 01:41:45,583 --> 01:41:48,667 ...there's so much to celebrate. 1192 01:41:48,750 --> 01:41:50,750 I hope you're right. 1193 01:41:53,792 --> 01:41:55,792 I hope you're right.