THE SINGULAR TALE OF EINSTEIN AND GENERAL RELATIVITY, FRANCE, 52 MIN., 2015

Directed: Quentin Lazzarotto
Two scientific explorers, your guides in our film, recount the true story of General Relativity, the story that they themselves have lived and that continues to shape their everyday lives and experience. Novel and at times controversial, this is a human story revealed through a voyage across the European continent. One question is ever-present: What made them both one day decide to dedicate a life’s research to this theory Surprising though it may seem today, the General Theory of Relativity did not receive immediate worldwide acceptance or recognition. From its publication and the announcement of the first experimental results in London in 1919, this theory that radically transforms our conception of time and space, has remained in the shadow cast by its “celebrated” inventor. Einstein, qualifying as “catastrophic” certain aspects of his own theory even went so far as to disavow his creation. For several decades General Relativity remained
discounted, discarded and out in the cold. It was not until the early 1970s with the advent of a new mathematics and speculation on the existence of black holes that Einstein’s theory of General Relativity became impossible to ignore for the worldwide scientific community.