Summer of Rockets (2019)
Drama
Overview
Samuel, a Russian-born Jewish inventor who specialises in the development of hearing aids, is tasked with a secret mission by MI5 to use his technological expertise to contribute to western Cold War efforts. Following the tensions of the space race and the first hydrogen bomb test, Samuel's efforts factor in to the emergence of the modern world.
Cast
- Toby Stephens as Samuel Petrukhin
- Keeley Hawes as Kathleen Shaw
- Linus Roache as Richard Shaw
- Mark Bonnar as Field
- Lucy Cohu as Miriam Petrukhin
- Claire Bloom as Aunt Mary
- Lily Sacofsky as Hannah Petrukhin
- Timothy Spall as Lord Arthur Wallington
- Gary Beadle as Courtney Johnson
- Toby Woolf as Sasha Petrukhin