Directed by:
Yves BoissetCinematography:
Jean BoffetyComposer:
Ennio MorriconeCast:
Lino Ventura, Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Krystyna Janda, Marc Mazza, Bernard Fresson, Beate Kopp, Heinz Bennent, Dieter Moor, Yves Boisset, Philippe Brizard (more)Plots(1)
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. While he is cultivating an on-going relationship with Anna Gretz (Krystyna Janda), his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate. He is recruited by a top French intelligence operative (Michel Piccoli) to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight by an unknown gang of terrorists. as he starts to work, he gets deeper into the case and realizes that he is using in an elaborate political manoeuvre, which leads to ruin everything what he loves in his life. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews (3)
The entire time, it was a bit too realistic for me. It even got really boring, but that was so that I could – even despite all the suspense – make it until the very end and be shocked because my mind was blown by what I thought I minded. Oh France, how do you do it?
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The reliable Lino Ventura in the middle of a murder conspiracy, which aimed to reduce the number of members of the French secret service abroad. Ventura as a sleeper agent, who has long built a solid existence, functional partnerships, and social ties to the extent that he has the right to consider his cover as a real existence, suddenly finds himself in a situation where his previous certainties collapse within a few days and he experiences an increasing sense of uncertainty and fear for himself and his surroundings. It is a film about a world where you cannot trust anyone and where there are no ideals, only the harshest pragmatism and state interests that do not care about the fate of the individual who gets in the way. Overall impression: 75%.
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Dismal Zürich weather, a dismal atmosphere and one dismal sleeper agent who somebody wakes, but nobody knows who or why. And that dismal agent isn’t like one from a Bond movie, strutting around with a gun in his hand, across roofs, mountains or in exotic destinations, shooting on sight and seducing one girl after another. This one has his daily routine, financial advice and he is at home in the office.
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