The first official teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer has been released online.

In the video, black-and-white shots of the main character, who first appears on the screen alone, and then accompanied by journalists, are mixed with bright explosions.

The role of the American physicist Robert Oppenheimer was played by Cillian Murphy.

Also involved in the tape are Matt Damon (Head of the Manhattan Project Leslie Groves), Robert Downey Jr. (Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss), Emily Blunt (wife of the protagonist Katherine Oppenheimer), Josh Hartnett (American scientist Ernest Lawrence), Gary Oldman , Rami Malek, Florence Pugh, Kenneth Branagh and others.

The film's budget is estimated at about $100 million.

At the beginning of the teaser, the voice of Katherine is heard telling Oppenheimer: “The world is changing, transforming.

Your moment has come," and then Downey Jr.'s Strauss calls Oppenheimer "the man who moved the Earth."

The teaser is structured in such a way that it is streamed cyclically, and the time is counted down on the screen until the world premiere of the film - July 21, 2023.

Christopher Nolan began filming Oppenheimer in early 2022.

The biopic tells the story of the "father of the atomic bomb" Robert Oppenheimer, who worked on the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons.

Universal previously described the film as an epic thriller about a mysterious man who must put the world at risk of destruction in order to save it.

Lead actor Cillian Murphy previously admitted in an interview with The Guardian that he carefully prepared for the role and studied a lot of literature on the topic.

“I am interested in this person and how (the invention of the atomic bomb. -

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) affects a person.

As for the mechanics of all this, it's not for me, I do not have the right intellectual abilities to understand them, but these conflicting characters are of great interest, ”said Murphy.

Previously, the actor has repeatedly worked with Christopher Nolan.

He starred in his Batman trilogy, as well as blockbusters Inception and Dunkirk.

Murphy admitted that he is ready to work with the director in any format.

“For the sake of Chris, I will always appear, no matter how big the role will be.

Chris will call me and I'm right there," he said.

American Prometheus

The film, co-written by Nolan, is based on the book by American writer Kai Byrd and historian Martin Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

The book won the Pulitzer Prize.

The picture was shot in IMAX format on films with high resolution - 35 and 70 mm.

Filming took place in New Mexico in a specially equipped area.

As a cinematographer, Nolan attracted Hoyte Van Hoytema, who worked on the films Interstellar, Dunkirk and Tenet.

The music for the film was written by Ludwig Goransson ("Venom", "Tenet").

Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan's first biopic.

The director had previously tried to write a screenplay about entrepreneur Howard Hughes and even considered Jim Carrey for the lead role, but the release of Martin Scorsese's The Aviator forced him to change his mind.

Robert Oppenheimer was born April 22, 1904 in New York.

He received his doctorate at the age of 22 from the University of Göttingen, after which the future founder of the American school of theoretical physics was the first to suggest the existence of black holes and made important discoveries in the field of nuclear and quantum physics.

In 1942, Oppenheimer was appointed scientific director of the Manhattan Project.

At his suggestion, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico was built, where the country's best minds developed nuclear weapons.

Atomic bombs created under his leadership were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

After the end of World War II, Oppenheimer was appointed chairman of the general advisory committee of the US Atomic Energy Commission, but he was soon removed from his post and denied access to classified data due to accusations of disloyalty to American politics and spying for the Soviet Union.

The reason was Oppenheimer's speech against the creation of a hydrogen bomb.

The fact of espionage was not proven, and later the authorities rehabilitated him.

For the last 20 years of his life, Oppenheimer headed the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.