Copenhagen

PBS Hollywood 432 Presents

Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning drama Copenhagen stars Stephen Rea (The Crying Game, Michael Collins, End of the Affair), Daniel Craig (Road To Perdition, Lara Croft:Tomb Raider) and Francesca Annis (Reckless, Wives and Daughters). Recent Tony nominee Howard Davies (Private Lives) adapts and directs Frayn's original play.

Inspired by actual events which have baffled and intrigued historians for more than 50 years, Copenhagen revolves around a 1941 meeting between two brilliant physicists, Niels Bohr of Denmark (Stephen Rea) and Germany's Werner Heisenberg (Daniel Craig), longtime friends whose work together opened the way to the atomic bomb, but who are now on opposite sides of World War II. Heisenberg makes a covert trip at great risk to see Bohr and his wife Margrethe (Francesca Annis) in Copenhagen, but the meeting ends in disaster. Why did Heisenberg go to Denmark, and what did the two men say to each other? What happened during this pivotal meeting that was a defining moment in the modern nuclear age?