The defector / Seven Arts Productions ; a PECF Rhein Main film ; a Seven Arts Pictures release ; screenplay by Robert Guenette and Raoul Levy ; produced and directed by Raoul Levy.
Title from container. Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger, Macha Meril, Christine Delaroche, David Opatoshu, Hannes Messemer, Roddy McDowall. Videodisc release of the 1966 film. "This disc is expected to play back in DVD video 'play only' devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container.
Summary:
Leipzig, East Germany. A flashpoint of spies and counterspies, moves and countermoves in a Cold War that could turn hot, nuclear hot, in seconds. The CIA asks American physicist James Bower to meet with a Russian scientist who is eager to share vital information with the West. Bower finds himself sequestered in a hotel room subjected to mind games as a "guest" of Communist agents who want to turn him into the Defector. He resists and plunges into a world of secret microfilm, covert ops, lies and sudden death. In Clift's last film, paranoia is business as usual and murder is a political tool.
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