CERN

Name: CERN
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Released: 2013

Nikolaus Geyrhalter 2013

Multi-awarded director Nikolaus Geyrhalter delivers stunning images from inside the immense CERN apparatus. Alternated with interviews with the experts who devised and operate this gigantic big bang machine, the film gives an insight into the complex experimental research institution that can be seen as a mirror of our inquisitive society.

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Running Time:

75 min.

Spoken Languages:

English

Directors:

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Producers:

Markus Glaser, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Cinematographers:

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Editors:

Joana Scrinzi, Andrea Wagner

Production Companies:

Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH

Festival Participation

Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival - 2014
Rome Docscient Festival - 2015
Helsinki Documentary Film Festival - 2015

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