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
