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.
Cast
Hervé Lacroix
Narrator (voice)
Albert Einstein
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Pyotr Vasilyevich Zarubin
Self - Son of Elizabeth Zarubina
Nikolai Bondarenko
Self - Historian and Journalist
Alexandre Adler
Self - Historian and Journalist
Nikolai Dolgopolov
Self - Author and Journalist
Patrick Pesnot
Self - Author and Journalist
Alan B. Carr
Self - Historian
Leó Szilárd
Self (archive footage)
Leslie Groves
Self - Director of the Manhattan Project (archive footage)
Jon Hunner
Self - Historian
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)
Claire Morin
Elizabeth Zarubina (voice)
Klaus Fuchs
Self - Theoretical Physicist and Atomic Spy (archive footage)
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