She loved a genius, discovered the universe, and history erased her name.
This film is a fascinating story about the life of Mileva Maric, a Serbian woman who was Albert Einstein’s first wife. It is an uplifting dramatic story about a woman who was a life companion during the most fruitful period of Einstein’s scientific work. Mileva intentionally carried to her grave one of the greatest secrets of modern science about her real contribution to the scientific work of Albert Einstein. Beside this eternal mystery, the film wishes to depict the love and dedication of Mileva to his husband’s fate, carrying herself a real Central European destiny of the first half of the XXth century.
Acting
Anica Dobra delivers restrained brilliance, intelligence burning behind silence.
Production
Sparse 50-minute runtime packs decades of swallowed ambition.
Director
Miloš Jovanović
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Maric-Einstein correspondence' containing potential evidence of her scientific contributions was published in 1987, making this 2011 film part of a decades-long reclamation project.
Serbian production funding meant this story escaped Hollywood's biopic sanitization—note how it refuses to make Albert likeable even in their early romance.
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