Edison - L'uomo che illuminò il mondo

The film presents the story of the "war of the currents" between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse which determined whose electrical system would power the modern world.

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse, THE CURRENT WAR is the epic story of the cutthroat competition between the greatest inventors of the industrial age over whose electrical system would power the new century. Backed by J.P. Morgan, Edison dazzles the world by lighting Manhattan. But Westinghouse, aided by Nikola Tesla, has seen fatal flaws in Edison’s direct current design. Igniting a war of currents, Westinghouse and Tesla bet everything on risky and dangerous alternating current. Directed by Alfonso Gomez‐Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and written by playwright Michael Mitnick (Sex Lives of our Parents), THE CURRENT WAR also stars Katherine Waterston, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Matthew Macfadyen, and Tuppence Middleton.

Directed by

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Release date

18/07/2019

“The great Edison… the man who invented the Twentieth Century”

Edison - L'uomo che illuminò il mondo
Edison - L'uomo che illuminò il mondo

Benedict Cumbebatch

Tomas Edison

Michael Shannon

George Westinghouse

Nicholas Hoult

Nikola Tesla