''Einstein'' is a 2008 Italian television miniseries written and directed by

Liliana Cavani Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Cavani became internationally known after the success of her 1974 feature film ''Il portiere di notte'' ('' The Night Porter''). Her films have historical concerns ...

. The film is based on real life events of scientist

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (14 March 187918 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence f ...

and it stars

Vincenzo Amato Vincenzo Amato (born 30 March 1966) is an Italian actor and sculptor. Life and career Born in Palermo as the son of the stage director and folk musician Emma Muzzi Loffredo, after high school Amato moved to Rome, where his mother lived. Alway ...

in the title role.

Cast

Maya Sansa Maya Sansa (born 25 September 1975) is an Italian actress. Early life and career Maya Sansa was born in Rome, the daughter of an Iranian father and an Italian mother. When she was 14, she started to study acting at her high school in Rome the ...

Mileva Marić Mileva Marić ( sr-cyr, Милева Марић, ; 19 December 1875 – 4 August 1948), sometimes called Mileva Marić-Einstein ( sr-cyr, Милева Марић-Ајнштајн, Mileva Marić-Ajnštajn, label=none), was a Serbian physicist a ...

Piotr Adamczyk Piotr Aleksander Adamczyk (; born March 21, 1972) is a Polish film, television, voice and theatre actor. He is known for portraying pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin in the biographical film '' Chopin: Desire for Love'' (2002), Pope John Paul ...

as Kurt Kluge * Flavio Parenti as

Eduard Einstein The Einstein family is the family of physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955). Einstein's great-great-great-great-grandfather, Jakob Weil, was his oldest recorded relative, born in the late 17th century, and the family continues to this day. Al ...

* Giorgio Basile as The Professor * Sonia Bergamasco as Elsa Lowenthal *

Luigi Diberti Luigi Diberti (born 29 September 1939) is an Italian actor and dubber. After graduating from the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome, he first appeared in small theater roles before having his breakout in 1968 with Luca Ronconi's ''L'Orl ...

as Hermann Einstein *

Andréa Ferréol Andréa Ferréol (born Andrée Louise Ferréol; 6 January 1947) is a French actress and officer of the Ordre national du Mérite (2009). Her debut was in the 1973 film '' La Grande bouffe'', which made a big scandal at the Cannes Film Festival. ...

as Pauline Kock * Lea Gramsdorff as Helen Dukas * Giorgio Lupano as

Marcel Grossmann Marcel Grossmann (; April 9, 1878 – September 7, 1936) was a Swiss mathematician who was a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Grossmann came from an old Swiss family in Zürich. His father managed a textile factory. He became a Professor ...

* Emiliano Coltorti as

Hans Albert Hans Albert (; 8 February 1921 24 October 2023) was a German philosopher. He was professor of social sciences at the University of Mannheim from 1963, and remained at the university until 1989. His fields of research were social sciences and g ...

Vincent Riotta Vincenzo Ricotta (born 14 October 1959), professionally known as Vincent Riotta, is a British actor. Career Riotta studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He went on to perform in various stage plays, such as William Shakespeare, Shakesp ...

as The

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...

Operator

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* 2008 television films 2008 films Italian drama television films 2008 biographical drama films Italian biographical drama films Films directed by Liliana Cavani Biographical films about scientists 2008 drama films 2000s Italian films {{2000s-Italy-film-stub