Einstein and Eddington | |
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Written by | Peter Moffat |
Directed by | Philip Martin |
Starring | Andy Serkis David Tennant Lucy Cohu Jim Broadbent Rebecca Hall |
Theme music composer | Nicholas Hooper |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producer | Mark Pybus |
Running time | 89 minutes |
Production company | Company Pictures |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 22 November 2008 |
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Einstein and Eddington is a British single drama produced by Company Pictures and the BBC, in association with HBO. It featured David Tennant as British scientist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, and Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein. This is the story of Einstein's general theory of relativity, his relationship with Eddington and the introduction of this theory to the world, against the backdrop of the Great War and Eddington's eclipse observations.