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It featured David Tennant as British scientist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, and Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein.

This is the story of Einsteins general theory of relativity, his relationship with Eddington and the introduction of this theory to the world, against the backdrop of the Great War and Eddingtons eclipse observations.

At the outbreak of the First World War, Eddington is appointed chief astronomer at Cambridge by Sir Oliver Lodge and instructed to research Einsteins work and defend the Newtonian status quo.

Meanwhile, Einstein is lured back from Zurich to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in an attempt to aid the war effort by embarrassing Britain by disproving the work of its great scientist Isaac Newton.

In Berlin, with his marriage already under tension, Einstein falls in love with his cousin Elsa.

He then presents his lecture to his fellow astronomers at the university defending Newton, but still thinking Einstein might be right and takes the German Mller family into his home after saving them from a violent anti-German mob.

When Einsteins wife arrives in Berlin, she discovers Einsteins affair and leaves him, whilst Eddington faces down protesters who despise his status as a conscientious objector.

Einstein arrives late at a demonstration of Fritz Habers poison gas and is so disgusted by this application of science to murder that he rejects an offer to convert his citizenship back from Swiss to German and refuses to sign the Manifesto to the Civilized World, a list of prominent German scientists, artists and academics supporting the war.

Realising that Mercurys orbit is precessing slightly less than it should be according to Newtons laws, he writes to Einstein despite the ban to inquire into his view on the problem.

Einsteins relationship with Elsa deepens, and on receiving Eddingtons letter he starts work on this new avenue with Max Planck, whilst consoling colleague Planck on the loss of his son in the war despite Einsteins lack of belief in a human-like God or an afterlife.

They find that Einsteins work agrees with Mercury s orbit where Newtons does not, and send this reply back to Eddington.

The expulsion has been initiated by Lodge, whose son was also among the killed and who clings to Newton as a consolation of order in the universe, but Eddington is unable to admit to Lodge that he too is grieving for a loved one.

Even so, he manages to complete his work on general relativity and on how starlight bends and gets this result through to Eddington via Planck.

Eddington realises he can prove that space and light are being bent by observing the solar eclipse of 29 May 1919 on the west African island of Prncipe, and with Dyson as an ally, manages to gain funding for his expedition, despite Lodges initial opposition.

As the war ends, Eddingtons sister and housekeeper, Winifred, sets off to help the Quaker relief effort in war-shattered Germany despite her fears as to Eddingtons waning faith.

Bringing back two photographs from the eclipse to compare to photographs of the night sky in normal conditions, Eddington compares them in public, with Lodge and Winifred in attendance, and not only proves Einstein right but also finds this confirmation reaffirming his faith as he states, I can hear God, thinking.

News of his vindication reaches Einstein, and crowds of press arrive at his door just as Elsa returns to him.

A year later, in the closing scene, Einstein visits Cambridge and meets Eddington.

It is produced by Company Pictures and the BBC, with HBO and Pioneer Pictures, Hungary.

Walter Isaacson acted as consultant (with Francisco Diego as eclipse advisor).

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