---
title: 'The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1980)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Krsto Papić'
released: '1980-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 115
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Yugoslavia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-secret-of-nikola-tesla-1980'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079985/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1980)

1980 · 115 min · Drama · Yugoslavia


## Synopsis

The Secret of Nikola Tesla, is a 1980 Yugoslav biographical film which dramatizes events in the life of the Serbian-American engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla. This somewhat fictionalized portrayal of Tesla's life has him contending with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan in his attempts to develop alternating current and then "free" wireless power.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Krsto Papić](https://cinepixo.com/people/krsto-papic)
- **Screenplay:** [Ivo Brešan](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivo-bresan)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Anđelko Klobučar](https://cinepixo.com/people/an-elko-klobucar)
- **Producer:** [Ilija Ivezić](https://cinepixo.com/people/ilija-ivezic)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ivica Rajković](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivica-rajkovic)

## Cast

- [Dennis Patrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennis-patrick)
- [Lojze Rozman](https://cinepixo.com/people/lojze-rozman)
- [Oja Kodar](https://cinepixo.com/people/oja-kodar)
- [Orson Welles](https://cinepixo.com/people/orson-welles)
- [Vanja Drach](https://cinepixo.com/people/vanja-drach)
- [Strother Martin](https://cinepixo.com/people/strother-martin)
- [Boris Buzančić](https://cinepixo.com/people/boris-buzancic)
- [Demeter Bitenc](https://cinepixo.com/people/demeter-bitenc)
- [Petar Božović](https://cinepixo.com/people/petar-bozovic)

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