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Tesla

Name: Tesla
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 2020-08-14
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 5.747

★ 5,7 /10 (382 Votes)

2020 EN 102 min

Overview

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.

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Release date

14/08/2020

Votes

382

Popularity

3.6

My achievements and conquests will be evaluated in the future

Genres

History Drama

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

102 min

Budget

$5,000,000

Revenue

$459,051

Website

www.tesla.movie

Ethan Hawke

Nikola Tesla

Eve Hewson

Anne Morgan

Jim Gaffigan

George Westinghouse

Kyle MacLachlan

Thomas Edison

Donnie Keshawarz

J.P. Morgan

Josh Hamilton

Robert Underwood Johnson

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Anital Szigeti

Lucy Walters

Katherine Johnson

John Palladino

Bourke Cochran

Michael Mastro

Charles Peck

Hannah Gross

Mina Edison

Peter Greene

Nichols

Blake DeLong

William Kemmler

Karl Geary

Francis Upton

James Urbaniak

Professor Anthony

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Eli Smith

Roller Skating Fiddler

Dan Bittner

Fred Ott

David Kallaway

John Kruesi

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Nicholas Wuehrmann

Ed the Organist

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Haley Elise Pehrson

Tesla's Mother

Tony Hutaj

Bill Edison

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Corban Elwick-Schermitz

Tom Edison Jr.

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Emory Gleeson

Dot Edison

Ian Lithgow

Alfred Brown

Emma Clare O'Connor

Evelyn

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Gary Rissman

Man Comforting Dog

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Steven Gurewitz

Harold P. Brown

Rick Zahn

Tracy Becker

Lois Smith

The Grande Dame

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Tallulah McRae Silovsky

Young Anne Morgan

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Hermione Heckrich

Agnes Johnson

Tom Farrell

Warden Durston

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Thomas Roma

Prison Doctor

Vincent De Paul

Westinghouse Assistant

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Christian Hicks

Waiter

Rebecca Dayan

Sarah Bernhardt

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Jameal Ali

Swami Vivekananda

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David Weinberg

Fritz Lowenstein

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Paul Saltzberg

Alta Vista Waiter

Joshuah Melnick

Richard Gregg

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Charles Baran

Alta Vista Concierge

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David Kubicka

Alta Vista Violinist

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Carl Bernzweig

J.P. Morgan's Assistant

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George Aloi

Science Society President (uncredited)

Gary Ayash

Science Society Dignitary (uncredited)

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Luna Jokic

Macak

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Eli A. Smith

Roller Skating Fiddler

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According to this movie, Thomas Edison (MacLachlan) and Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) were like Mozart and Salieri if Mozart and Salieri had been anything like they are portrayed in Amadeus – but then Tesla has as tenuous a hold on reality as Amadeus does, sans all the things that make Milos Forman's film otherwise great. This movie derives a sick pleasure from comparing the two inventors, emphasizing Edison's failures over Tesla's successes – whatever those may have been; I confess that, after seeing the film, I haven't the slightest idea of Tesla's achievements, apart from alternating curren…

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