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2024-04-05 19:32:38
The Swedish television channel SVT is showing a three-part documentary drama produced by Natalie Regner and directed by Daniel Ottosson, The Nobel Brothers.
As Day.Az reports, the film was made by the Swedish production company Storyfire based on the book by Bengt Youngfeldt “Immanuel Nobel and Sons – the Swedish genius in Tsarist Russia,” as well as thousands of letters, archival materials, photographs and interviews with experts and living relatives of the Nobels. It tells the story of three generations of Nobels, from the engineer, inventor, founder of an industrial dynasty and head of the Immanuel family to the grandson Emmanuel, an oil industrialist and engineer.
The film introduces viewers more closely to three brothers, Alfred, Robert and Ludwig, who left a greater mark on world history thanks to their world-famous inventions, talks about their ups and downs, their personal lives and the relationships between the brothers.
“Everyone knows who Alfred was, but not everyone knows that he was four brothers who created an international industrial empire,” says the film’s director.
Filming began in Karlskoga, on the Bjorkborn estate, which was the last Swedish home of Alfred Nobel. This is also where his laboratory is located, where he developed many of his inventions.
Soon the film crew went to Baku to film material about the years of life the brothers spent here.
It is known that in search of wood for rifle stocks, Robert Nobel ended up in Baku in 1873. Having discovered oil here, he persuades the brothers to invest in the oil industry, as a result of which the BraNobel oil company was founded. Thanks to the resourcefulness of the Nobels, the first oil pipeline in the Russian Empire with a steam pump was launched in Baku, and the world’s first oil tanker, Zoroaster, was created. This and much more from the life and work of the brothers is narrated in the film.
Filming in Baku took place in the Gobustan Nature Reserve and the Nobel Brothers house-museum Villa Petrolea.
It should be noted that the world premiere of the film took place earlier in Baku at Villa Petrolea on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the brothers’ legacy.
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