Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb (2015)

Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb

2015

Documentary History

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Gérard Puechmorel

Cast

Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)

Albert Einstein as Self (archive footage)

Alexandre Adler as Self - Historian and Journalist

Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self (archive footage)

Hervé Lacroix as Narrator (voice)

Joseph Stalin as Self (archive footage)

Nikolai Bondarenko as Self - Historian and Journalist

Nikolai Dolgopolov as Self - Author and Journalist