Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb (2015)
On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Americans. The speed with which they achieved this surprised the world. What nobody knew was that it was the result of espionage. At the centre of the operation was a very unusual female spy, Elizabeth Zaroubin, in a story worthy of the best spy novels ever written.
Director: Gérard Puechmorel
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Hervé Lacroix as Narrator (voice) |
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Albert Einstein as Self (archive footage) |
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Joseph Stalin as Self (archive footage) |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self (archive footage) |
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Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage) |
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Pyotr Vasilyevich Zarubin as Self - Son of Elizabeth Zarubina |
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Nikolai Bondarenko as Self - Historian and Journalist |
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Alexandre Adler as Self - Historian and Journalist |
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Nikolai Dolgopolov as Self - Author and Journalist |
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Patrick Pesnot as Self - Author and Journalist |
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Alan B. Carr as Self - Historian |
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Leó Szilárd as Self (archive footage) |
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Leslie Groves as Self - Director of the Manhattan Project (archive footage) |
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Jon Hunner as Self - Historian |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer as Self (archive footage) |
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Claire Morin as Elizabeth Zarubina (voice) |
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Klaus Fuchs as Self - Theoretical Physicist and Atomic Spy (archive footage) |
| Directing | Gérard Puechmorel | Director |
| Writing | Gérard Puechmorel | Writer |