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[MarshaV]

At 04:27 AM 9/12/2008, you wrote:

>dmb,
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>Thanks for the notification of this book.
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>I would like to make a recommendation too.  It's Copenhagen, the PBS version:
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>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008RGZG
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I should have mentioned this is an adaption of a play that centers on 
the visit by Werner Heisenberg to Niels Bohr in 1941.  I enjoyed it 
very much. Here is a review:

This 2002 film, based on the play by Michael Frayn, imagines what 
might have happened between the physicists Niels Bohr (Stephen Rea, 
The Crying Game) and Werner Heisenberg (Daniel Craig, The Road to 
Perdition) on a particular night in September of 1941. Heisenberg was 
collaborating with Nazis in Germany; Bohr, a Jew, was living in 
occupied Denmark but had contact with physicists on the Allied side. 
Something in this meeting destroyed their longstanding friendship; 
Frayn envisions their ghosts--and that of Bohr's wife, Margrethe 
(Francesca Annis, Dune)--reliving, arguing, and fantasizing about a 
conversation in which an innocent topic like skiing could slide into 
a dangerous discussion of physics and politics. This skillfully woven 
and well-acted conversation, far from being a static talk-fest, has 
all the dynamism of a psychological thriller. Our intentions, like 
the particles at the heart of physics, can never be known for 
certain. --Bret Fetzer



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