United States / United Kingdom 2022, 101 min, English, Hebrew subtitles

Nuclear physicist Ted Hall kept an explosive secret for over fifty years: he was a spy for the Russians. Hall, the brilliant college student recruited into the Manhattan Project at the age of 18, shared classified information with the USSR. It happened during the days of the Cold War: Hall made contact with the superpower behind the Iron Curtain on his own initiative in order to ensure—as he explains it—that neither side had a monopoly on the deadly weapon, so that no one would be tempted to use it. Hall confessed to this in 1998, a year before his death, but his wife Joan knew all along. Now, she is telling her story in a touching film about love, sacrifice, idealism, and the strength to stand up for what you believe in.

Previous Festivals: Venice, IDFA, Telluride

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Steve James is an award-winning filmmaker whose career has spanned more than three decades. His most recent docuseries, “City So Real,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to be named one of the best television shows of 2020 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, Slate, The LA Times, and the Hollywood Reporter, among many others. The show was nominated for two Emmys, an Independent Spirit Award, and three Cinema Eye Honors, among others. His previous docuseries, 2018’s “America to Me,” won the Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Series for Broadcast, and was named one of the best television shows of 2018 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, Slate, The Chicago Tribune, Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, among many others.

Production: Mark Mitten, Dave Lindorff, Steve James
Production Company: Participant, Mitten Media, Kartemquin Films
Script & Editing: Steve James
Cinematography: Tom Bergmann
Music: Dawn Sutter Madell

Source: Autlook Filmsales

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