Watch The Secret Of Nikola Tesla (1980) Free Online

Release Date: 1980   Duration: 105 min

Cast: Demeter Bitenc, Petar Božović, Oja Kodar, Strother Martin, Orson Welles, Vanja Drach, Boris Buzančić, Dennis Patrick

Categories: Movies, Biographical film, Drama, Documentary

The Secret of Nikola Tesla, is a 1980 Yugoslav biographical film which details events in the life of legendary inventor Nikola Tesla, born to ethnic Serb parents in 1856 Croatia, who arrived in New York in 1884, became American citizen in 1891, made immense contributions to science, and died in New York at age 86, during the middle of World War II in 1943. Croatian director Krsto Papić...  MORE

The Secret of Nikola Tesla, is a 1980 Yugoslav biographical film which details events in the life of legendary inventor Nikola Tesla, born to ethnic Serb parents in 1856 Croatia, who arrived in New York in 1884, became American citizen in 1891, made immense contributions to science, and died in New York at age 86, during the middle of World War II in 1943. Croatian director Krsto Papić assembled a cast which includes three American actors playing iconic personalities of 19th and early 20th century America, J. P. Morgan, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. Morgan is portrayed by Orson Welles, while Croatian actress Oja Kodar, Welles' companion for the last 24 years of his life, has the role of Katharine Johnson, with whom Tesla corresponded for many years, and whose husband, Robert Underwood Johnson was a poet, scholar, diplomat and Tesla's longtime friend and supporter. The other Americans in the cast are character actors Strother Martin and Dennis Patrick as Westinghouse and Edison, respectively. LESS