In the midst of World War 2, intelligence services from England, Germany and Russia collided in a fierce fight for the mind of Nicky Raus, a genius German Jewish scientist who's developing a weapon of tremendous power. An American agent, Frank Hossom, enters the game when German agents undertake a daring operation stealing the scientist. Frank has to get the scientist back - dead or alive. His mission is complicated by his developing relationship with Olga Ryabina, Nicky's lover, an actress forced to work for KGB. The love triangle and the international intrigue weave into a deadly net.
Acting
Ron Perlman treating this like Shakespeare while everyone else does community theater.
Costume
Nazi uniforms from Halloween Express, KGB trench coats from a mall in 1987.
Director
Dmitry Fiks
Craig Sheffer
Frank Hossom
Todd Field
Nicolas Raus
Svetlana Metkina
Olga Ryabina (as Lana Litwak)
Ron Perlman
General von Binding
Aleksey Serebryakov
Veklich
Aleksandr Dyachenko
Lubenets
Aleksey Chadov
Bykov
Oleksandr Kobzar
German Sharpshooter
Serhii Romaniuk
KGB Colonel
Irina Demidkina
Ihor Hniezdilov
German Lieutenant
Serhiy Marchenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Russian-American co-production shot in Moscow with American actors, explaining the budget '90s aesthetic and wildly inconsistent period details.
The film belongs to a bizarre 2000s subgenre: Eastern European studios hiring fading American TV stars for DVD cover bait. See also: Steven Seagal's entire later career.
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