"Stealing the Fire".....Saddam gets nuclear secrets from Nazi connections [View All]

[Gabi Hayes]

Anybody know anything about it?

watching it now on Sundance

here's a review from the NYT

The central figure in ''Stealing the Fire,'' a video documentary by John S. Friedman and Eric Nadler that opens today at the Cinema Village, is one Karl-Heinz Schaab, a deceptively drab German technocrat whose only discernable character trait is a weakness for bad wigs.
Mr. Schaab is a colorless man who says little and reveals less. In a Munich court in 1999 he was convicted of selling German nuclear technology to Iraq: specifically, appropriating the secret plans for an array of centrifuges used to produce weapons-grade uranium.


The filmmakers attempt to follow Mr. Schaab's trail in Iraq, where he met with Khidhir Hamza, the former director of Saddam Hussein's nuclear project (who has since defected, and is interviewed in the film) and in Brazil, where, the filmmakers say, he was involved in a plan to build a Brazilian nuclear submarine.

Most of Mr. Schaab's story is told through his defense lawyers. As the film cuts back and forth among Rio de Janeiro, Munich and Baghdad, with side trips to Zurich and elsewhere, it takes on the exotic coloration of a postwar espionage thriller, something the novelist Eric Ambler might have conceived on a tramp steamer crossing the Black Sea.

http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=&title2=Stealing%20the%20Fire%20%28Movie%29%20%20&reviewer=Dave%20Kehr&pdate=&v_id=267622

wonder where it's going; what its viewpoint is.....haven't found anything WRT POV yet....just noticed it was on