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The Red Shade (1981)
Directed by Jean-Louis Comolli
Overview
The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin’s iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no fault of their own, fear drives one of them to suicide while the other gets his lover and her child and begins a run for his life, knowing that the KGB will never let him go free.
Length 112 minutes
Actors
Claude Brasseur | Jacques Dutronc | Nathalie Baye | Andréa Ferréol | Nicolas Hossein | Nicola Belsky | Julien Blaine | Michelle Carles | Philippe Carles | Christian Gauffre | Panisse | Alexandre Arbatt | Lev Belsky | Jean-Jacques Biraud | Facundo Bo | Pascal Bonitzer | Pinkas Braun | Patrick Depeyrrat | André Dupon | Giovanni Früh | Louba Guertchikoff | Alain Ilan-Chojnow | Charles Millot | Stephan Meldegg | Biaggio Pelligra | Simone Real | Maurice Risch | Peter Semler | Gratien Tonna | Serge Valletti | Max Vialle | Sylvain Plaine | Thierry Benoît | Nicolas Escale