

Soviet spies playing 4D chess while you're still figuring out checkers.
KGB agents are organizing the disinformation campaign for a western spy.
Acting
Zhzhyonov's weary colonel carrying decades of secrets.
Direction
Gostev's claustrophobic framing traps everyone.
Production
Authentic 70s Moscow grime, no Hollywood polish.

Director
Igor Gostev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Brezhnev stagnation, this rare Soviet spy film dared suggest intelligence work was bureaucratic slog, not heroic adventure.
Georgi Zhzhyonov was a genuine WWII veteran who survived a Nazi concentration camp; his hollow-eyed weariness isn't acting.