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What it's about
Montgomery Cliff (in his last role) plays James Bower, an American physicist visiting West Germany who's recruited by a shady CIA agent, named Adam, to help them with the defection of a Russian scientist. But an East German secret agent, named Peter Heinzeman, learns of Bower's meeting with Adam and threatens Bower to mind his own business, while Bower learns of a back story to all this involving stolen microfilm that each side wants.
Cast and crew
- Director
- Raoul Lévy
- Writer
- Robert Guenette, Raoul Lévy, Paul Thomas
- Starring
- Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger, Macha Méril
Details
- Release date
- Nov 16, 1966
- Language
- English, German
- Country
- France, West Germany
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