(Doctor Atomic)
Penny Woolcock / USA, 2008
English version / English and Czech subtitles, 201 min
John Adams’s contemporary masterpiece explores a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atomic bomb. Director Penny Woolcock makes her Met debut with this gripping story that changed the course of history. Baritone Gerald Finley, above, plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the title character.