(13 April 2017) Enrico Fermi once said about Ettore Majorana, one of the greatest Italian physicists of the twentieth century and the brightest among the Via Panisperna boys: "There are exceptional geniuses like Galileo and Newton: Majorana was one of them". Majorana went missing without a trace in March of 1938 during a ferry accident crossing from Palermo di Naples –on the biggest Italian mysteries of the past century. The brilliant Sicilian theoretical physicist is featured in a documentary film which will soon be released in Denmark. It is in fact a public programme of the Italian Cultural Institute of Copenhagen in which the film “Nessuno mi troverà” (No One Will Find Me) by Egidio Eronico distributed by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and starring Francesco Guerra, Nadia Robotti, and Ettore Majorana jr will be screened on Monday, April 24th at 19:30. It features as part of a wider programme “Un film italiano al mese” (One Italian Film per Month). “Nessuno mi troverà” was released in Italian theatres last April and tells the story of Majorana’s disappearance on March 26, 1938, at the age of 31 that continues to be a mystery today despite many existing hypotheses. The documentary film will be screened in Italian with Danish subtitles. The event was sponsored by the ICI in collaboration with Caffé River. Guests will be offered a complementary coffee before the start of the event. (Red)

THE PLOT

Ettore Majorana was a theoretical physicist and docent at the Physics Institute of the University of Naples. On March 26th, 1938 at the age of 31 he disappeared under mysterious circumstances. He was one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the twentieth century and the most well-known missing persons’ case in contemporary Italian history. His disappearance, now almost 80 years ago, still raises many doubts. His work is more relevant today than when they were first published. Through documentation, archival images, graphic novel animations, testimonials, documentaries and conjecture; Majorana’s documentary plumbs the depths of the sea of mystery that is Ettore Majorana. Was he taken? Did he commit suicide? Did he flee? Through Francesco Guerra’s and Nadio Robotti’s research around the life and work of Majorana, “No One Will Find Me” attempts to answer these difficult questions without the presumption of giving certainties but at the same time, to not settle for the “official truth”.