Helios - documentary film

Understanding the Sun is extremely important to us. It is the closest star giving us life but it can also be dangerous for our modern society. One of the best ways to study Sun and corona is through the solar eclipse. Few years ago, many scientists believed that they can't learn anything new from the solar eclips. Partly because it was technically impossible to capture a more detailed image. In our film, we meet Prof. Druckmüller who, thanks to his hobby, discovered how to capture images of the solar corona that were groundbreaking and never seen before. These images renewed the international scientific interest in this phenomenon.

In the documentary, we join Prof. Druckmüller on an expedition to the USA for observation of the full solar eclipse in the summer of 2017. We follow the story of a scientist who, thanks to his hobby, resurected the scientific interest in observing the solar eclipse. It is also a story of a father challanged by his daughter. And it is an opportunity to make a film to which professional scientists can relate, but which also explains the physics of the Sun to general public in an accurate and interesting way through the work of Prof. Druckmüller and his team.