Secret Agent (1947 film)
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Director Boris Barnet Duration Country Soviet Union | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Thriller, War Language Russian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Mikhail Blajman , Konstantin Isayev , Mikhail Maklyarsky Release date 1947 (1947) Cast Pavel Kadochnikov (Mayor Alexei Fedotov), Amvrosi Buchma (Leshchuk), Viktor Dobrovolsky (Vadim - secret service chief), Sergei Martinson (Willi Pommer), Boris Barnet (Gen. von Kühn), Pyotr Arzhanov (Karpovski aka Stübing)Screenplay Mikhail Blajman, Mikhail Maklyarsky, Konstantin Isayev Music director Dmitri Lvovich Klebanov, Oskar Sandler Similar movies The Shield and the Sword (1968), Boris Barnet directed Secret Agent and Miss Mend, Clear Skies (1961), The Magic Weaver (1960), The Gadfly (1956) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secret Agent (Russian: Подвиг разведчика, translit. Podvig razvedchika) is a 1947 Soviet spy film directed by Boris Barnet and based on the novel The Deed Remains Unknown (Russian: Подвиг остается неизвестным) by Mikhail Maklyarsky. The film stars Pavel Kadochnikov in the leading role. Secret Agent is also known as Secret Mission, Secrets of Counter-Espionage, The Scout's Exploit.
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It was the first film about the actions of Soviet intelligence officers behind enemy lines in World War II. The film originated the spy genre in Soviet cinema and had a great influence on all subsequent Soviet spy films, including Seventeen Moments of Spring. It is based on real events from the biography of Nikolai Khokhlov.
The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1947 and had 22.73 million viewers.
Plot
Soviet intelligence officer Aleksey Fedotov by the name of Heinrich Eckert departs for German occupied Vinnytsia. His purpose is to obtain the secret correspondence of General Kuhn with the Hitler's headquarters. When his radio operator, sent to Aleksey, is executed, Fedotov is forced to search for a contact through the local underground, but accidentally he discovers that one of the underground workers is a provocateur.
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Secret Agent (1947 film) WikipediaSecret Agent (1947 film) IMDbSecret Agent (1947 film) themoviedb.org