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    Sedona Film Fest presents ‘A Compassionate Spy’ premiere Sept. 8-13

    The story of a brilliant nuclear physicist, a passionate leftist and their explosive secret
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    “A Compassionate Spy” is the story of a brilliant nuclear physicist, a passionate leftist, and the explosive secret they kept over a remarkable 52-year marriage.
    “A Compassionate Spy” is the story of a brilliant nuclear physicist, a passionate leftist, and the explosive secret they kept over a remarkable 52-year marriage.
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    Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “A Compassionate Spy” showing Sept. 8-13 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre.

    “A Compassionate Spy” is the story of a brilliant nuclear physicist, a passionate leftist, and the explosive secret they kept over a remarkable 52-year marriage.
    “A Compassionate Spy” is the story of a brilliant nuclear physicist, a passionate leftist, and the explosive secret they kept over a remarkable 52-year marriage.

    “A Compassionate Spy” is the story of a brilliant nuclear physicist, a passionate leftist, and the explosive secret they kept over a remarkable 52-year marriage.

    Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to be the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, Hall didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb.

    Increasingly concerned during 1944 — with Germany clearly losing the war — that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon could lead to nuclear catastrophe, he decided beginning that October to start passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union.

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    After the war, at the University of Chicago, he met and married Joan, a fellow student with whom he shared a passion for classical music and socialist causes — and the explosive secret of his espionage. Living under a cloud of suspicion and years of FBI surveillance and intimidation, the pair raised a family while Ted refocused his scientific brilliance on groundbreaking biophysics research.

    “A Compassionate Spy” — two-time Oscar-nominee Steve James’ nuanced documentary — reveals the twists and turns of this real-life spy story, its profound impact on nuclear history, and the couple’s remarkable love and life together during more than 50 years of marriage.

    “A Compassionate Spy” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre Sept. 8-13. Showtimes will be Friday, Sunday and Monday, Sept. 8, 10 and 11 at 6:30 p.m.; and Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 12 and 13 at 3:30 p.m.

    Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.

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