A Compassionate Spy (2022)
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.
- Date of release
- 2022-08-31
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Steve James
Casting
- Theodore Hall — Self (archive footage)
- Joan Hall — Self
- Joseph Albright — Self
- Marcia Kunstel — Self
- Daniel Axelrod — Self
- J. Michael Wright — Ted Hall
- Lucy Zukaitis — Joan Hall
- Nicolas Eastlund — Savy Sax
- Mickey O'Sullivan — FBI Agent McQueen
- Tom Goodwin — FBI Agent 3
- Zach Twardowski — Ed Hall
- Olivia Piper — Young Ruthie
Interesting facts
A Compassionate Spy is a 2022 American documentary film written and directed by Steve James. It premiered out of competition at the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival. The film was released in the United States on August 4, 2023.
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