The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1980)

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Original Title: Tajna Nikole Tesle

Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.

Introduction
"The Secret of Nikola Tesla" (initially "Tajna Nikole Tesle") is a biographical film launched in 1980 and directed by Krsto Papić. The film collaborate excellent stars such as Petar Božović, Orson Welles, and Dennis Patrick, in a dramatic, yet compassionate effort to ignite Tesla's curiosity, genius, and has a hard time worldwide of scientific acknowledgment.

Plot Overview
The movie opens with Nikola Tesla (played by Petar Božović), a Serbian-American scientist, living in New York in the 1930s. In spite of his impoverished condition, Tesla's mind is bristling with advanced scientific concepts, the after-effects of which would profoundly amend human civilization's technological architecture.

Tesla's memory explores his youth, where we witness him in contrasting loyalty between his father's wish of ending up being an Orthodox priest and his own enthusiasm for useful electrical power and science.

Visualization of Tesla's Genius
The movie's context primarily revolves around Tesla's experimentation in power transmission, radio waves proliferation, and remote control. By illustrating his successes and failures, the film efficiently offers a glimpse of the resourcefulness amidst stumbling blocks.

His most well known creation, the Tesla coil, is showcased maturely. Considered an architectural pillar in radio and tv equipment, this innovation shows Tesla's boldness in championing alternating existing over Thomas Edison's direct current.

Conflict with Thomas Edison
The most remarkable element of this movie is Tesla's continuous friction with Thomas Edison (played by Dennis Patrick). The movie traces the distinct difference on AC (Alternating Current) vs. DC (Direct Current) power supply. While Edison passionately promoted for DC, Tesla firmly held that AC was superior in both its capacity for long-distance electrical power transmission and its security. The bitter rivalry in between 2 popular electrical scientists ultimately culminates in unveiling the intrinsic advantages of alternating present, resulting in its extensive adoption today.

Contrasts with J.P. Morgan
The sub-plot including J.P. Morgan (played by Orson Welles), a prominent financier and banker, uncovers the operations of entrepreneurship and capitalism shadowing scientific developments. Tesla thought Morgan deprived him of his ultimate imagine wireless electrical energy transmission by managing monetary support for his projects. Regardless of Tesla's brilliant mind and revolutionary ideas, the film checks out how the entrepreneur's mindset and lack of monetary resourcefulness hindered much of his visions from developing into concrete truths.

Conclusion
The secret of Nikola Tesla rests not in some hidden scientific blueprint but in the obscured recesses of a mind hub to genius and compassion simultaneously. His exceptional personality, brightened by his pursuit of science for humanity's advantage, stands as a plain contrast to the material-driven intentions of the corporate world.

"The Secret of Nikola Tesla" intertwines Tesla's remarkable clinical journey and human battle with clearness and sensitivity. Regardless of being set in a bygone era, it continues to motivate and remind us about the unbridled enthusiasm for science and the towering giants behind clinical inventions that shaped the world we reside in today.

Top Cast

  • Petar Božovi? (small)
    Petar Božovi?
    Nikola Tesla
  • Strother Martin (small)
    Strother Martin
    George Westinghouse
  • Orson Welles (small)
    Orson Welles
    J.P. Morgan
  • Dennis Patrick (small)
    Dennis Patrick
    Thomas Alva Edison
  • Oja Kodar (small)
    Oja Kodar
    Catherine Johnson
  • Boris Buzan?i? (small)
    Boris Buzan?i?
    Robert Johnson
  • Charles Millot (small)
    Charles Millot
    Adams
  • Ana Kari? (small)
    Ana Kari?
    Djuka Mandic
  • Edo Pero?evi? (small)
    Edo Pero?evi?
    Kolman Czito
  • Igor Galo (small)
    Igor Galo
    Guglielmo Marconi
  • Vanja Drach (small)
    Vanja Drach
    Mark Twain