Russian spy boss in Geneva spends a night interrogating two spies to see who is a traitor.
Acting
Hossein's directorial vanity becomes magnetic self-cast villainy
Direction
Single-location tension that Hitchcock would respect
Production
1986 Soviet-chic aesthetic dripping with cigarette smoke
Director
Robert Hossein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hossein adapted this from his own stage play — explains the theatrical single-room intensity and why the camera rarely breathes.
Shot in Geneva during actual late-Cold War tensions; the 'Soviet' embassy scenes were filmed in a borrowed bank building at 3am.
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