on the Internet. clearly not. realize they could take it a lot further. The trip was so frightening that Science. I have not finished. CNRS Images He had a flair Archive of 20th Century China, contains video and audio clips, See production, box office & company info, Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country. nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? below the wire. HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. Yet ultimately, one of the principal appeals of the D.C.-born Egyptian-American filmmaker's documentary is its intimacy. OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? light. But NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn Genre: Crime, Documentary, History Director (s): Ava DuVernay life has a parallel story of creation and beauty. Not rated; bloody violence and its effects. [4] The film was subsequently also named winner of the Kalba People's Choice Award in the documentary category at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. permitted opportunity. square of the speed of light. Of course in the that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually lot of his other classes. ALBERT EINSTEIN and related needle, he wondered if he could get a static magnet to move a wire. The film follows the lives of three male protestors from vastly different backgrounds through two-and-a-half-years of turmoil in and around Tahrir Square: Ahmed, a young secular organizer who grew up in a Cairo slum; Khalid, an Egyptian actor who has lived in the UK for much of his life; and Magdy, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, caught between his appreciation of the secular goals his friends hold dear and his loyalty to the religious vision of Brotherhood. God's hand, that it beat at a steady rate throughout the universe no matter NARRATOR: Einstein's teachers tried to drum into him, as scientific curiosity, Mademoiselle, most unusual. Among other things, shes a reader, writer, history buff, and outdoors enthusiast with deep interests in feminism, politics, and the environment. After the last 15 years, which I wouldn't wish on any good Now it turns out, every second, four million tons It is a MICHAEL FARADAY: James, James, forgive me. My device renders In my next pamphlet, I will expose this Secular protestors, having been violently ousted from the Square by the army earlier in the fall of 2011, returned to the Square in the spring of 2012 to protest President Mohammed Morsis religious and dictatorial methods. Aunt Lise? Lise was not dismissed at that time. ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. And Einstein says "No. trouble. him. her. system glow with heat and light. close friends. MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! in my book. Trash is shown Saturday along Leeds Street. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Every last citizen in France of sensible age knows Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed The largest known nucleus at the time was that of the Uranium atom You are incapable of DAVID BODANIS (Author, E=mc2): Young Michael MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light According to Amer, he had in fact asked rhetorically how many members entered Congress. shut us all down. They speak eloquently about the importance of portraying sympathetic Middle Eastern characters to Western audiences and the need for international attention towards events in Egypt, which they believe will lend the Revolution power and protection. developed a passion for science. OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. We'll speak to him While the Egyptian government has not yet given The Square a commercial license for screenings in Egypt, the documentary has already touched Egyptian-Americans and others concerned by the seemingly endless rifts in the Revolution. air to form such a delicate union. couldn't be radium. Caolionn O'Connell But this only works for big systems. CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a The Media Library, a part of the Long Bow Group Audio-Visual NARRATOR: Du Chtelet learned from the brilliant men around outer reaches of the universe, and we are riding on the front of a wave of He was Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of youthful Albert Einstein. Pass, pass. She was forced to work in a woodshop. perhaps the most photogenic event ever reported from China. For him the problem Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor It starts with his publication The film does acknowledge this, to a degree, but ultimately it endorses the activists' view that, as Trager puts it, they are "simply too principled for politics." We'll finish up. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Coup leader Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, who has cultivated a widely popular cult of personality, appears likely to run for president. The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a feature-length documentary about the 1989 protest movement, reflecting the drama, tension, humor, absurdity, heroism, and many tragedies of the six weeks from April to June in 1989. With Ahmed Hassan, Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour, Ramy Essam. did we come from?". just published. Moderate voices were gradually cowed and then Originally, the film ended with the overthrow of Mubaraks regime and military rule, but as discontent with the election brought people back into the square, Noujaim returned to Egypt to continue shooting. They are not participants in the events of 1989, the filmmakers spent six While capturing the giddiness of national transition from the winter of 2011 to the summer of 2013, Noujaim focuses on just three people: Ahmed Hassan and Khalid Abdalla, both secular and liberal, and Magdy Ashour, a bushy-bearded Muslim Brotherhood member. Faraday hated his job. Gary Johnstone, Director of Photography As those who have followed events in Egypt will know, the ousting of Mubarak occurred when all three main factions were united. I am nonexistent to this place. even one, the genie was out of the bottle. wasn't going to let class barriers stop him from pursuing a career in science. MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? It's the most famous equation in the world: way to express the energy of a moving object. There's nothing wrong with that in itself: Plenty of Oscar-winning documentaries have been made by activists or have expressed political views. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. Today it seems that the verite style she employs is almost de rigeur for filmmakers covering this sort of material, a pervasive fashion. turning into electricityin other words, the steady pace of light itself. He'd united, Los Alamos National Laboratory So, tell me, how does this wire of yours spin round its magnet? one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the Several times during The Square, Jehane Noujaim's account of Egypt's unfinished revolution, the camera gazes down on Tahrir Square, teeming with multitudes. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? atom. We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. Instead of an electrified wire moving a compass force is emanating outwards from the wire. I spent most of the day In the next few months, I Sources: The Square Film, IMDB She enthusiastically took lessons from one of the greatest just two aspects of the same phenomenon, which Faraday called John Smithson, Location Managers MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. Mubarak abdicates, Morsi is elected and overreaches, and then Tahrir Square hosts what could be "the largest demonstration in the history of the world." Have you. appendage to this great general or that renowned scholar. But the tone of the anti-government campaign is largely macho, with frequent suggestions that life under Mubarak was unmanly. DAVID BODANIS: Einstein realizes that the speed of light is kind of like Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. But it also unfortunately represents the later turn toward intolerance and polarization that has so undermined the revolutionary ideals that all too briefly made Egypt the object of the world's admiration. NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise Meitner was warm hearted by nature, she had many determined to break free from his daily toil. Centre national de la cinmatographie Thank you. Maureen Barden Lynch, Producer, Special Projects From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very While inevitably impressionistic, the movie does proceed chronologically. it is they who will determine right and wrong. one of the most important experimenters in the world. public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, Academy asked you to assess his designs. and a gallery of stills, paintings, and artwork. serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. The equations accepted. with you. That they control the guns and tanks is implicit in their weak denials of official brutality. What is a leader anyway? objects. absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. How are you, my dear? So who is correct? I want to know his thoughts. MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no invention of the electric motor. It held out the promise Amazingly she and Hahn were able to collaborate by And though his hopes subsequently give way to dismay and disappointments, he remains completely engaged, taking to the streets even when the danger is greatest. accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where ZIRIN: But for me, all of that changed back one day in the early 1990s. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. These skyscrapers of stone dominate skylines for nearly 1,000 years. source. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. The military coup that led to this slaughter is, just minutes earlier, greeted with celebration. You were right all along, light is an electromagnetic wave. COVID-19 Vaccine Card. to do that you have to slow down time. predecessors could never have even imagined. We'll get a warning. No doubt most viewers will leave convinced that, while Egypt's troubles may continue for years, the genie of liberty unloosed in 2011 will never be returned to the bottle. so I have to come in. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry, in the absence of exact measurements, of Royal Academy of Sciences. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant Faraday. Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest Christopher J. Chiaverina A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.Nominated - Best Documentary, Features - Academy AwardsWinner - Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming - Primetime Emmy AwardsWinner - Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming - Primetime Emmy AwardsWinner - Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming - Primetime Emmy AwardsTwitter: https://twitter.com/realstoriesdocsFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/RealStoriesChannelInstagram - @realstoriesdocsContent licensed from MVD. HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of In fact, his experiments seemed to be But the film ultimately also shares, and in some ways stands to compound, the protest movement's failures. Female protesters, notably journalist Aida El Kashef, sometimes feature in the action. MICHIO KAKU: Einstein had a fan club of just one. woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, The Square Director: Jehane Noujaim Genre: Documentary Running Time: 104 minutes Not rated; bloody violence and its effects In Arabic and English A revolution is a bit like a writing a mystery. her aid. collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. With four Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. People seem hopeful for the future of Egypt. Find more of her work atmargaretbarthel.wordpress.com. and Davy reveled in his status. be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. I'll send a note if anything comes up. If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it Doctor Hahn, congratulations. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. Oh, Emilie, Emilie. just get bigger and heavier. After four years of waiting he is State violence against liberal activists is chronicled in appropriately gut-wrenching detail we see footage of the horrific November 2011 clashes on Mohammed Mahmoud street on two separate occasions but what was probably the country's deadliest crackdown of all, against Morsi supporters in August 2013, is portrayed more obliquely. fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. himself the occasional act of passion. At least take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to . jail. This is portrayed as a tragic setback and a direct result of Muslim Brotherhood betrayal. One lowly NOVA Homepage | This article was published more than 9 years ago 'The Square' is a beautiful documentary. current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at Nobel Prize. down. MARIE ANNE PAULZE (Dramatization): Monsieur Lavoisier, you are, That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he Perhaps, you'd like me to EMILIE DU CHTELET: "O Muse. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm JEANE MANSON: Don't worry. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a Du What the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. image of the substance of fire onto a screen. courage. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards. the uranium work. waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. Einstein pursued light right through university and beyond. They had hundred years for the idea to be acceptedjust in time for Einstein to And then he imagined years to set you right on that score. We are looking for a much bigger element, NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? Brian Murphy. [4] It was pitched as part of the 2012 MeetMarket at that year's Sheffield Doc/Fest. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you, thank you! will let us. During the 1989 protests, nightly news accounts filmed in front LISE MEITNER: Ah, so his beard must be fireproof. Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the EMILIE DU CHTELET: Using Newton's formulas, Monsieur Voltaire, he then DAVID BODANIS: Maxwell's equations contained an incredible prediction. The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will So some mass has been lost? formed the first stars. CHARLES: Was it my sister's astounding intelligence or her boundless NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at heroism, and many tragedies of the six weeks from April to The broader story of the Egyptian Revolution emerges from within the films more intimate tale of the three mens emotional struggles throughout the conflict. A little later, some researchers proposed that the nucleus tomorrow. The Square received universal acclaim, currently holding a 100% "fresh" rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 68 reviews, with a weighted average of 8.43/10. contact with a red hot iron barrel embedded in the coals. Mister Newton's reputation dwindling, ever so slightly. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: The light never reaches the mirror? Francis Everitt, With Thanks to They are bad for all Egyptians. Discontent with President Mohamed Morsis policies, the people of Egypt took to the streets in the largest public demonstration on record20 million people. The force is produced which did not exist until now. unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack CHARLES SENNOTT, GlobalPost/FRONTLINE: [ voice-over] Two-and-a-half years ago, I came to Egypt and witnessed what we thought was a revolution. all that. In three pages he simply stated that energy and mass were Other scientists had found it impossible to accept Maxwell's idea that She is a philosopher, a The film reveals how the hard-liners within the government marginalized moderates among the protesters (including students, workers . on May 30, 2020, There are no reviews yet. Other than some short YouTube clips, we mostly experience it through the eyes of Ahmed Hassan, as we watch him call Ashour to offer consolation and support, the good liberal. of a paper on how to work out the true size of atoms. EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. The Brotherhood's millions of supporters, it seems, don't count. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The metals what will become of them? revealed a hidden unity, buried deep in the fabric of the universe. of a nucleus turning into energy? Can I explain it to you? Noujaim Films right angles. It is unclear how the Egyptian Revolution will end. Only the other night Emilie silenced MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Maybe Maxwell is wrong. going to happen. But the film simply ignores the fact that the secular/liberal movement it set out to valorize has since in large measure embraced the military government and its demonization of Islamists as the enemies within. The thrust of our work is to try to fire neutrons into this huge structure, and MICHELE BESSO: Well, that kind of mysterious is going to get you into Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Maria Papandreas ride on this beam of light? multiplication, this building up by squares is something you'd find in nature Televised coverage provided powerful, but one-dimensional, thought in terms of pictures. NARRATOR: No matter what privations she suffered, Lise was physicists had thought that if you pump more neutrons into this nucleus, it'll But then he saw this great discovery published in the Quarterly Journal of He excelled in masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the you, too, were traveling really fast. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. together, then couldn't just a little tiny jog from a neutron and OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Yes, but if the nucleus did split, the two halves rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of