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The Defector(L'espion)

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France, West Germany · 1966
1h 40m
Director Raoul Lévy
Starring Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger, Macha Méril, David Opatoshu
Genre Drama, Thriller

Professor Bower, an American physicist, is effectively blackmailed by a shady CIA agent named Adams to help the CIA obtain secret microfilm from a defecting Russian scientist. The reluctant Bower travels to East Germany undercover as an antiques collector where he encounters Heinzmann, an East German fellow physicist, who is also a secret agent. Heinzmann is aware of Bower's meeting with Adams and his intention to steal the microfilm, however their mutual respect for one another's tactics complicate the proceedings.

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