A Compassionate Spy
“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.
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Cast
27 people
Theodore Hall
Self (archive footage)
Joan Hall
Self
Joseph Albright
Self
Marcia Kunstel
Self
Daniel Axelrod
Self
J. Michael Wright
Ted Hall
Also in
SWITCHIN'
Lucy Zukaitis
Joan Hall
Known for
Nutcrackers
Nicolas Eastlund
Savy Sax
Mickey O'Sullivan
FBI Agent McQueen
Also in
Mayor of Kingstown
Dark Matter
Tom Goodwin
FBI Agent 3
Zach Twardowski
Ed Hall
Olivia Piper
Young Ruthie
Steve James Director · Tom Bergmann Cinematographer
United States release October 31, 2023 · Produced in United States · Production Kartemquin Films, Mitten Media
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Participant
Production
Kartemquin Films
Production
Mitten Media
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Italy · August 31, 2022
Premiere
United States · October 31, 2023
Physical · DVD
United States
September 3, 2022 · Premiere · Telluride Film Festival
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