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Director
  
Krsto Papic

Music director
  
Andelko Klobucar

Language
  
Serbo-Croatian

7.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Biography, Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
Yugoslavia

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Writer
  
Ivo Bresan
,
Ivan Kusan
,
Krsto Papic

Release date
  
1980

Screenplay
  
Krsto Papic, Ivo Bresan, Ivan Kusan

Cast
  
Petar Božović
(Nikola Tesla),
Strother Martin
(George Westinghouse),
Orson Welles
(J.P. Morgan),
Dennis Patrick
(Thomas Alva Edison)

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Tagline
  
The Genius Who Lit The World

The secret of nikola tesla 1980 yugoslavian film


The Secret of Nikola Tesla (Serbo-Croatian: Tajna Nikole Tesle), is a 1980 Yugoslav biographical film which details events in the life of the Serbian-American engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), portrayed by Serbian actor Petar Božović. Tesla grew up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire), studied engineering and physics, and moved to New York in 1884. He became an American citizen in 1891 and is known for his contributions to electrical engineering.

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This biography includes references to his abilities of detailed mental visualization as well as the slowly intensifying personal habits, indulgences or eccentricities for which he became nearly as well known. The film portrays Tesla in a battle with Thomas Edison over the superiority of Alternating Current over Direct Current. It also depicts Tesla's dream of supplying consumers all around the globe with limitless wireless energy.

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Croatian director Krsto Papić assembled a cast which includes three American actors playing iconic personalities of 19th and early 20th century America, J. P. Morgan (1837–1913), Thomas Edison (1847–1931) and George Westinghouse (1846–1914). Morgan is portrayed by Orson Welles, while Croatian actress Oja Kodar, Welles' companion for the last 24 years of his life, has the role of Katharine Johnson (1855–1924), with whom Tesla corresponded for many years, and whose husband, Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) (portrayed by Croatian actor Boris Buzančić) was a poet, scholar, diplomat and Tesla's longtime friend and supporter. The other Americans in the cast are character actors Strother Martin (who died six weeks before the film's September 12, 1980 English-language premiere at the Toronto Festival of Festivals) and Dennis Patrick as Westinghouse and Edison, respectively.

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Cast

  • Petar Božović as Nikola Tesla
  • Strother Martin as George Westinghouse
  • Orson Welles as J. P. Morgan
  • Dennis Patrick as Thomas Edison
  • Oja Kodar as Katharine Johnson
  • Boris Buzančić as Robert Underwood Johnson
  • Demeter Bitenc
  • Vanja Drach
  • References

    The Secret of Nikola Tesla Wikipedia
    The Secret of Nikola Tesla IMDb The Secret of Nikola Tesla themoviedb.org