The Red Shade

1981 ""

The Red Shade

5.1 | 1h52m | en | Drama

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.

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5.1 | 1h52m | en | Drama , Thriller | More Info

Released: October. 28,1981 | Released Producted By: , Country: France Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Claude Brasseur , Jacques Dutronc , Nathalie Baye

Director

Serge Marzolff

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Cast

Claude Brasseur

as Anton Kovetz

Camping : histoire d'un succès His Majesty Minor Family Hero Camping Avenue Montaigne L'amour aux Trousses The Do-Gooders Chouchou Dancing Machine

Jacques Dutronc

as Léo

Françoise Hardy et Jacques Dutronc, les inséparables UV Nightcap Summer Things Place Vendôme My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days Malevil L'entourloupe Mado

Nathalie Baye

as Anna

Haute Couture Him Sous le soleil de Pialat My Best Part Nox Médée Laurence Anyways Beautiful Lies Together Is Too Much

Reviews

Mozjoukine Flacid spy thriller shows thirties leftists struggling to adhere to Moscow dictates as the situation becomes more and more treacherous - excluding the Spanish Socialists and Anarchists from aid, rumors of a an alliance with the Nazis and the elimination of former comrades. Brasseur gets the film's best scenes - the attempt to recruit him by a National Socialist, who represents them as fellow battlers against privilege, the prisoner exchange where his fellow is shot and revealed as a turncoat and his monologue in the cabaret, about the old comrade who resists all attempts to make him confess to unreal crimes - "the thirteen who confessed were the heroes!" The other celebrity players make little impression, though Mlle Baye's unnecessary nudity does catch attention - nice body.Handling is flat, with the dull dialogs barely connected to a few nice scenics. The two mob action scenes are laughably badly filmed. The Vera Belmont ROUGE BAISIR is a more penetrating and more involving study of misplaced loyalty.