Summer of Rockets
2019 · Miniseries · TV-14 · 60 min · ★ 6.6 · 83% critics
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.
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Details
- Years
- 2019
- Release date
- 2019-05-22
- Network
- BBC Two
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-14
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Critic score
- 83/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (26 votes)
Themes
- inventor
- deaf-mute
- deaf
- cold war
- russian immigrant
- mi5
- jewish family
- debutante
- missing son
- english upper class
- hearing aid
Cast & crew
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
- TW
Toby Woolf
as Sasha Petrukhin
Directed by Stephen Poliakoff
Episodes1 season · 6 episodes
Season 16 episodes
- S1E1Episode 160mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E2Episode 260mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E3Episode 360mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E4Episode 460mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E5Episode 560mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E6Episode 660mAmazon Prime Video