Seen in the context of “Oppenheimer,” Steve James’ film serves as a fascinating complement — and in some ways, a corrective — to the Christopher Nolan blockbuster.
The documentary"A Compassionate Spy" includes reenactments of real-life University of Chicago physicist Ted Hall , later a passer of atomic secrets to the Soviets, and future wife Joan Hall .The latest Steve James documentary “A Compassionate Spy,” opening Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center, made its world premiere late last summer at the Venice Film Festival.
In 1944, in collaboration with longtime friend and fellow Communist Saville Sax and working through Soviet operatives, Hall fed crucial information to the Soviets regarding the Manhattan Project’s development of the implosion bomb. A year earlier, recruited out of Harvard University for Oppenheimer’s secret atomic project, teenaged Hall felt enormous moral qualms about the apparent, and then proven, military purpose for the bomb.
Much of the documentary draws from on-camera interviews Hall agreed to in 1998, the year before he died. The freshest material in “A Compassionate Spy” comes from James’ 2019 interviews with Joan Hall, and members of her family, along with separate interviews with the children of Hall’s longtime friend Sax.
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