Micro Men
Release Date: 2009-10-08
Overview: In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.
Rating: 7.103 / 10
Cast
Alexander Armstrong
as Clive Sinclair
Martin Freeman
as Chris Curry
Edward Baker-Duly
as Hermann Hauser
Sam Phillips
as Steve Furber
Peter Davison
as Bank manager
Crew
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Saul Metzstein - Director
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Tony Saint - Writer
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Ilan Eshkeri - Original Music Composer
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Hubert Taczanowski - Director of Photography
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Jonathan Spencer - Gaffer
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