The world's first computer was built by a dying woman in a corset. History forgot her.
London, England. 1851. Dying of cancer and facing down early Victorian sexism, brilliant mathematician Ada Lovelace risks a high stakes gamble to raise the money needed to complete her life's object, the worlds first computer.
Acting
Julie Bruns burns through the screen with dying ferocity
Production
Cramped Victorian spaces that feel genuinely suffocating
Writing
Dense historical dialogue that never dumbs down the math
Director
Steven Kammerer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Ada Lovelace died at 36, the same age as Julie Bruns during filming — the director kept this from the cast until wrap.
The Analytical Engine was never built in her lifetime; this film imagines her building a physical prototype that historians debate may have existed in partial form.
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