Klaus Fuchs - Atomspion

England, 1950. A defector Russian points out the brilliant nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs as a spy for the Soviet Union. Apparently, five years earlier, Fuchs had smuggled documents out of the secret and heavily guarded nuclear laboratory of Los Alamos, New Mexico. He had handed them over to the man he knew only under the name of 'Raymond'. A few months later, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed. Fuchs is sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment. However, he is released in 1959. At his death, in 1988 in the G.D.R., he has become a highly honoured, totally rehabilitated scientist. This documentary examines the question as to whether Klaus Fuchs tried to either keep or knowingly disturb the world's peace. The Dubini brothers do not find a definite answer to this question, but meanwhile make a subtle portrait of a passionate scientist. They used interviews, authentic newscasts, recordings of the process, feature film fragments, and even a private 8mm-film to fathom Fuchs' personality. Moreover, they have made a historically well-founded portrait of the era of the Cold War, with its arms race. The Dubinis have unmistakably realized this documentary with the knowledge of the eighties and thus obtained a certain degree of objectivity. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)