Directed by:
Vladimir BortkoScreenplay:
Vladimir BortkoCinematography:
Elena IvanovaComposer:
Igor KrutoyCast:
Malcolm McDowell, Sandrine Bonnaire, Ariyon Bakare, Liam Cunningham, Matt Milne, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Andrey Chernyshov, Marina Aleksandrova, Mikhail Efremov (more)Plots(1)
A Russian intelligence agent Alexander Fedorov who works in London under the name of Alex Wilkie asks for a political asylum in the West. He then becomes a double agent working for both Russia and USA. But for whom is he really working? His territory covers Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Egypt, Morocco and Russia. The story ends up with the solution to the riddle and five corpses. But this isn't a normal spy story. It is about a spy's methods and instruments. A surgeon works with a scalpel, a miner with an air hammer. A spy, notwithstanding what country he is working for -- China or Japan, Russia or USA -- has the same instruments: blackmail, theft, eavesdropping, forgery... And, when, required, murder. A spy may have a few wives -- for purposes of cover. No friends, but plenty of informers. In order to lead a double, a treble life. It is a profession that makes an imprint on a human being. As it did KGB colonel Michael Lyubimov during the Cold War. (Montreal World Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Malcolm McDowell
UK
Best movies:
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Long Ago Tomorrow (1971)
Sandrine Bonnaire
France
Best movies:
East/West (1999)
Happening (2021)
La Cérémonie (1995)
Ariyon Bakare
UK
Best movies:
The Dark Knight (2008)
Life (2017)
The Secret Laughter of Women (1999)
Liam Cunningham
Ireland
Best movies:
Prime Suspect 6 (2003) (TV movie)
The Tale of Sweety Barrett (1998)
A Little Princess (1995)
Matt Milne
UK
Best movies:
War Horse (2011)
Modern Life Is Rubbish (2017)
Wrath of the Titans (2012)
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
Tri bogatyrya na dalnikh beregakh (2012)
9th Company (2005)
Andrey Chernyshov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Man Without a Past (2002)
Tankers (2018)
The Soul of a Spy (2015)
Marina Aleksandrova
Hungary
Best movies:
Azazel (2002) (TV movie)
Peregon (2006)
Army of Valhalla (2003)
Mikhail Efremov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
12 (2007)
9th Company (2005)
What Men Still Talk About (2011)
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Zdravstvuyte, ya vasha tyotya! (1975) (TV movie)
Lyubov moya, pechal moya (1978)
Mesto vstrechi izmenit nelzya (1979) (series)
Aleksey Buldakov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998)
The Guard (1989)
Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995)
Ольга Дроздова
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Soul of a Spy (2015)
Aleksey Panin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
DMB (2000)
V avgustě 44-go (2001)
Granica. Tajožnyj roman (2001) (series)
Daniil Spivakovskiy
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Execution (2021)
The Last Frontier (2020)
1612: Chroniki smutnogo vremeni (2007)
Nina Gogaeva
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Tycoon (2002)
The Soul of a Spy (2015)
Barrie Martin
Best movies:
Sherlock (2010) (series)
Two Is a Family (2016)
As Long as I Live (2012)
Miroslav Zaruba
Best movies:
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Alexa Davies
UK
Best movies:
X+Y (2014)
Absolutely Anything (2015)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Chris Cowlin
UK
Best movies:
Rush (2013)
The Imitation Game (2014)
The Escape Artist (2013) (series)
Aleksandr Kudrenko
Best movies:
The Soul of a Spy (2015)