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
Georgi Zhzhyonov
Никита Алексеевич Дубровин (полковник)
Vladimir Samoylov
Сергей Николаевич Никитин / Гусейнов / Стальгер
Georgi Taratorkin
Евгений Казанский (художник-реставратор)
Mikhail Pogorzhelsky
Алексей Алексеевич Раскольцев
Semyon Morozov
Василий Михайлович
Lyubov Sokolova
Клавдия Ивановна Шкаликова
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Пётр Михайлович Брунов (генерал-полковник)
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
господин Эдвардс (полковник из разведцентра)
Rolan Bykov
проводник Пчёлкин
Yuriy Tolubeev
Сергей Константинович
Lyudmila Staritsyna
сотрудница отдела кадров на ж/д
Sergei Karnovich-Valua
эпизод
Valentina Ananina
эпизод
Kira Golovko
эпизод
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.
SU
