Haber

Story

Synopsis

At the brink of World War I, Fritz Shimon Haber was Germany's greatest chemist. Haber's Nobel prize-winning synthetic fertilizers saved world's population from mass starvation. But as World War I broke out killing millions of German soldiers, the desperate German forces asks Shimon Haber to provide the army with new kind of weapon. Haber has already sacrificed his and his family's Jewish identity in order to become a respectable German citizen. With his decision to invent such a weapon, Haber was the first scientist in human history to unleash a weapon of mass destruction. Later he paid the ultimate price for his ambition as his wife Clara committed suicide and his invention was used for murdering millions of Jewish people during World War II.

Director

Daniel Ragussis

Writers

Daniel Ragussis

Language

English

Release date

5 August 2008

Ensemble

Cast

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  Christian Berkel

  Fritz Shimon Haber

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  Juliane Köhler

  Clara Haber

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  Wolf Kahler

  Ludendorff

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  Mark Margolis

  Bremer

• Maury Cooper

  Siegfried Haber