Synopsis
An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Metacritic74/100
144 audience votes
Key crew
- Christian CarionDirector
- Clint MansellOriginal Music Composer
- Christian CarionWriter
- Eric RaynaudWriter
Cast
- Guillaume CanetPierre Froment
- Emir KusturicaSergei Grigoriev
- Alexandra Maria LaraJessica Froment
- Ingeborga DapkūnaitėNatasha
- Dina KorzunAlina
- Evgeniy KharlanovIgor
- Niels ArestrupVallier
- Willem DafoeFeeney
- Fred WardRonald Reagan
- Philippe MagnanFrançois Mitterrand
- David SoulHutton
- Christian SandströmFBI Agent