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Dominican Rep. The Defector
- Original title
- L'espion (The Defector)
- Year
- 1966
- Running time
- 106 min.
- Country
France- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Montgomery Clift
Hardy Krüger
Roddy McDowall
Macha Méril
David Opatoshu- Christine Delaroche
- Hannes Messemer
Karl Lieffen- Uta Levka
Johannes Buzalski
Jean-Luc Godard- Eduard Linkers
- Rolf Zacher
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production France-Germany - West Germany (FRG);
- Genre
- Thriller | Spy Film
- Synopsis
- Montgomery Cliff (in his last role) plays James Bower, an American physicist visiting West Germany who's recruited by a shady CIA agent, named Adam, to help them with the defection of a Russian scientist. But an East German secret agent, named Peter Heinzeman, learns of Bower's meeting with Adam and threatens Bower to mind his own business, while Bower learns of a back story to all this involving stolen microfilm that each side wants.
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