Gold

Two scientists try to make gold using an atomic reactor. The film takes the idea as science fiction and turns the laboratory into an enormous set; the machines and the scenes of experiment are its best known aspect. The account shows science as both hope and threat and puts at its centre the question of whose hands the discovery will fall into. The relation between industry and science stands beneath the story. The production was completed in Germany in 1934 and belongs to the German science fiction cinema of those years. Hans Albers and Brigitte Helm appear in Karl Hartl’s hundred and twenty minute German film.