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5.8An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
Released: 1966-10-19100 minDir: Raoul LévyDrama, Thriller
Cast
- Montgomery Clift as Professor James Bower
- Hardy Krüger as Counselor Peter Heinzmann
- Macha Méril as Frieda Hoffmann
- David Opatoshu as Orlovsky
- Christine Delaroche as Ingrid Weiß
- Hannes Messemer as Dr. Saltzer
Themes
- german-german border
- renegade
- illegal border crossing
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 106
- FilmAffinity ID
- 344898
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- publication date
- 1966-01-01
- title
- The Defector
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Hardy Krüger
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Nicole Courcel
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Categories
1960s spy drama films1960s spy thriller films1966 drama films1966 English-language films1966 films1966 French films1966 German filmsCold War spy filmsEnglish-language French filmsEnglish-language German filmsEnglish-language spy thriller filmsFilms about the Central Intelligence AgencyFilms based on American novelsFilms based on thriller novelsFilms scored by Serge GainsbourgFilms set in East GermanyFilms set in GermanyFilms shot in BavariaFrench spy drama filmsFrench spy thriller filmsGerman spy drama filmsGerman spy thriller filmsTemplate film date with 1 release dateWest German films