During the Cold War in the 1960s, British spy Alec Limas (Richard Burton) was stationed in West Berlin for many years to engage in espionage operations. However, after witnessing his colleague lurking in East Germany being shot and killed by the East German border guards, Alek returned to Military Intelligence 6 headquarters for a classified ultimate mission. In order to infiltrate East Germany, Alek deliberately exposed his weaknesses, even his depraved side, in order to alienate the head of the East German intelligence agency Münter (Peter van Eyck) and his subordinate Fiedler (played by Peter van Eyck). Oskar Werner (played by Oskar Werner), disintegrating his power. However, under the bewildering mask of a double agent, Alek gradually discovered that he was just an insignificant pawn, and his inner moral judgment and the increasingly blurred distinction between good and evil also tortured Alek.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold movie plot
2022-03-14 08:01
Extended Reading
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Gladys 2022-03-27 09:01:21
2015-8-18 want to see. This is really amazing, and it shocked me even more than the tinker (the tinker is mainly looking at his face...). Perhaps the actors of that era were also contaminated with the cold and decadent atmosphere of the Iron Curtain, and the empty despair in their eyes was very real. Originally living in the play, what the film records is just a fragment of daily life. We are all in the gutter, some of us are looking at the stars, but the stars are not returning their stares.
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Beulah 2022-03-24 09:03:48
The ending has been changed to make it easier to understand than the novel. Finally, Mundt, you're a bastard
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold quotes
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Alec Leamas: Mundt was a Nazi, wasn't he?
Fiedler: He was a member of the Hitler Youth... as a boy.
Alec Leamas: Now he's a grown-up Communist. He's what I would call... available.
Fiedler: Like you!... Shall we begin? Let me start by asking you an amusing question.
Alec Leamas: Let me start by asking you one! Make you laugh your head off! Where's my money? When can I go wherever... wherever home is? I mean, Carleton's gone home! Peters has gone home! What about me?
Fiedler: The agreement was...
Alec Leamas: Agreement!... You've broken the bloody agreement and barring miracles you've broken my bloody neck too! The agreement was that I should be interrogated for two weeks in Holland, paid, and allowed to slip quietly back to England without anyone knowing I'd ever been away. And nobody would have known if you hadn't broken the story.
Fiedler: Just who the hell do you think you are? How dare you come stepping in here like Napoleon ordering me about? You are a traitor! Does it occur to you? A wanted, spent, dishonest man, the lowest currency of the Cold War? We buy you - we sell you - we lose you - we even can shoot you! Not a bird would stir in the trees outside. Not a single pheasant would turn his head to see what fell.
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Alec Leamas: [to Fiedler] If ever I have to break your neck, I promise to do it with a minimum of force. Now, when do I get my bloody money?