01 Jan 1980
Railway Station
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.
A Compassionate Spy
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.
Top Billed Cast
Theodore Hall Self (archive footage)
Joan Hall Self
Joseph Albright Self
Marcia Kunstel Self
Daniel Axelrod Self
Lucy Zukaitis Joan Hall
Nicolas Eastlund Savy Sax
Mickey O'Sullivan FBI Agent McQueen
Tom Goodwin FBI Agent 3
Olivia Piper Young Ruthie
Enzo Inalsingh Sax baby
Kate Marie Smith Susan Sax
Leslie Groves Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
J. Robert Oppenheimer Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walter Huston Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ann Harding Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Manart Kippen Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry S. Truman Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dwight D. Eisenhower Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry L. Stimson Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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