Can’t find much in Googling re any major motion pictures (or even minor) that have been made of his life.
Seems like an odd oversight given how seminal his influence was.
I take it IQ doesn’t count?
Albert Einstein How I See the World by PBS.
Surprisingly few movies made about great geniuses. Don’t know why that is, other than the thought that the vast dumb majority don’t like being reminded how dumb they truly are. They have to have some story to hang the movie on apart from the genius just being a genius - like the Richard Feynman bio-pic Infinity which was mostly about him his relationship with his wife Arline. You pretty much have to look to TV for good movies about genius, like The Race for the Double Helix or Longitude.
Not exactly true - there have been plenty of movies about musicval geniuses, artistic geniuses, literary geniuses, military geniuses… it’s scientific geniuses who get the short end of the stick, probably because screenwriters can’t figure out how to make their work interesting to laymen.
Incidentally, the film Insignificance features a character who is obviously meant to be Einstein. It’s about a strange night in the mod-50’s where his life intersects with three people who are standing in for Joe DiMaggio, Joe MacCarthy and Marilyn Monroe.
Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile is about a fictional meeting of Picasso and Einstein, and it’s also a fun meditation on the notion of genius. It’s a one-act play and there were efforts to make it into a movie, but it didn’t pan out. In any case it works very well on the stage.
We have not - that’s the first one I thought of. One of the biggest Oscar snubs of all time, if you ask me.
Netflix has one called ''Young Einstein". I did not check to see if it had anything to do with Einstein.
After IQ, I thought of this one. Weird film.
Yes and no. It was, about “Albert Einstein”, but the story actually bears no resembelance to Einsetin’slife story (for example he’s from Tasmania in the movie) mostly for comic effect.
I’m not sure a realistic biopic would make all that interesting a film. There are no tense escapes from Nazis or post-war accusations of communism (at least not from anybody who wouldn’t look cartoonish to a modern audience). Possibly a fictionalized version of his “miracle year” (1905) might be worthwhile, as might a docudrama with F. Murray Abraham narrating, as he did for a Nova episode about Newton.
Thinking does not photograph very well.
Maybe if Terrance Malik directed it…
Every Albert Brooks film is about Albert Einstein.
He showed up on Doctor Who in a cameo once. The Sixth Doctor and Peri, but I forget which episode. The John Nathan-Turner years are only a sad blur for me now.
This. Einstein’s life isn’t all that interesting, hence no movie. He didn’t have a problem with alcohol, he didn’t hang on the edge of lunacy, he didn’t kill anyone (except very indirectly, in backing the development of the atomic bomb), etc.
Oh there’s room for an interesting film, most notably about his living in Berlin as the Nazis come to power.
Did you read Issacsson’s biography? His life was a lot more complicated and dramatic than we’ve been taught.