The new Steve James documentary “A Compassionate Spy,” about the Manhattan Project physicist, Soviet spy and University of Chicago alum Theodore Hall, has been selected for the documentary slate of the 79th Venice Film Festival.
“Every once in a while I try to do something short,” James said.
“A Compassionate Spy” deals with the lives of Ted and Joan Hall — their marriage, their longtime evasion of the FBI and the information about Hall’s atomic espionage activities that came to light four years before Hall died in Cambridge, England, in 1999. His widow survives, and after James traveled to Cambridge to meet with her, and others, he knew he had a movie.in The New York Times, graduated from Harvard at age 18, a physicist on the rise.
After the war, Hall attended the University of Chicago and finished out his Master’s and doctoral degrees in physics. He worked in biophysics in New York City and then moved with his family to England.
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