The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The spy who came in from the cold |
| Original title | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Ritt |
| script |
John le Carré Paul Dehn Guy Trosper |
| production | Martin Ritt |
| music | Sol Kaplan |
| camera | Oswald Morris |
| cut | Anthony Harvey |
| occupation | |
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The Spy Who Came Out of the Cold is a 1965 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by John le Carré .
action
Alec Leamas heads all British intelligence operations in West Germany and the GDR from West Berlin . After the East German chief of defense in the Ministry of State Security , Hans-Dieter Mundt, completely destroyed Leamas' agent network in the GDR, Leamas was ordered back to England . There, his social decline is staged in order to make Leamas useful as bait for the East German secret service. He should then provide the opponent with information from which it can be concluded that Mundt is a British spy . Initially, Leamas worked in a library and met the young idealistic communist Nan Perry. They start a relationship with each other.
Leamas drunk knocks down a shopkeeper and goes to jail. His bourgeois existence thus seems to have been finally destroyed. After his release, as expected, he was recruited by agents of the Warsaw Pact and initially brought to Holland , where he was to be questioned. When Leamas is advertised in English newspapers, he is brought to East Germany. There he meets Fiedler, the Jewish deputy of the former Hitler Youth Mundt. Fiedler interrogates Alec and checks his statement that large sums of money have been transferred to an unknown agent with a German name through banks in Denmark and Finland . Mundt stayed there on the days of the withdrawals.
The ambitious communist Fiedler recognizes his chance and lets his boss accuse Mundt with Leamas' information. There is a secret tribunal against Mundt. The evidence against him seems overwhelming. But the tide turned when Mundt's defense surprisingly called Nan Perry as a witness, who was lured to East Germany by an invitation from the SED . The defense cross-examines a frightened Nan Perry. She sees Leamas in the hall and is afraid to testify against him. The British foreign secret service MI6 , also known as Circus , had bought the apartment Perry lived in for 1000 pounds through its employee George Smiley (equivalent in 2016, depending on the calculation, about 50,000 pounds) and transferred it to it. Smiley had visited Perry, posed as a friend of Leamas, and told her that she had fallen into the lot of a charity. They were observed by East German agents. Mundt's defense attorney questions Perry, and after some hesitation she admits to know George Smiley. Leamas can no longer see his beloved suffer and admits the whole plan. Mundt is exonerated, Leamas and Perry are taken into custody. But when Mundt appears to free the two of them, Leamas thinks he can see through the whole thing: Mundt is really a British agent. It was all a monstrous plot against Fiedler, who Mundt had discovered.
Mundt helps both of them to escape. He lays the traces in such a way that Fiedler's people must be suspected. On the way, Leamas explains to Perry that from the beginning they were just pawns in a wrong game. They wonder why Mundt is helping them to escape; because both represent a great danger for him. Shortly before the Berlin Wall in Potsdam they meet a young man who shows them the way to the wall and gives precise instructions for overcoming it. At one point the wall has been prepared with crampons so that the fugitives can climb over it. The spot is not illuminated by the searchlights for a short time. Leamas climbs onto the top of the wall and helps Perry up. The young man who secretly followed up with a rifle shoots Perry. Smiley stands on the western side of the wall and calls to Leamas to save himself. Leamas sees through MI6's plan, but Perry's death touches him. He slowly climbs back to the GDR side, is fatally hit by several shots by the border troops and falls to the ground next to Perry.
publication
The film opened in theaters in the Federal Republic of Germany on March 8, 1966. It was first shown on German television on July 29, 1974 from 9:15 pm on ZDF .
Reviews
"Exciting entertainment with above-average acting performances."
“Realistic and uncompromisingly tough film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name, which depicts the dirty and cold everyday life of agents between East and West. One of the very few spy films that is of a format that can be taken seriously. Recommended for ages 16 and up. "
"Martin Ritt's adaptation of the popular novel by John le Carré is an intelligent thriller that forces viewers to watch it at least twice."
synchronization
The German version of the film was made in 1965 by the Berlin-based synchron Wenzel Lüdecke . Both the creation of the dialogue book and the dialogue direction were in the hands of Klaus von Wahl . The actors Oskar Werner and Peter van Eyck voiced their roles for the German version themselves.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Alec Leamas | Richard Burton | Holger Hagen |
| Nan Perry | Claire Bloom | Johanna von Koczian |
| fiddler | Oskar Werner | Oskar Werner |
| Peters | Sam Wanamaker | Klaus Miedel |
| GDR defense attorney | George Voskovec | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Hans-Dieter Mundt | Peter van Eyck | Peter van Eyck |
| George Smiley | Rupert Davies | Hans W. Hamacher |
| Chief of MI6 | Cyril Cusack | Wolfgang Buettner |
| Ashe | Michael Hordern | Ernst Wilhelm Borchert |
| Dick Carlton | Robert Hardy | Lothar Blumhagen |
| Patmore | Bernard Lee | Paul Wagner |
| President of the Court | Beatrix Lehmann | Leny Marenbach |
| old judge | Esmond Knight | Konrad Wagner |
| Holten | Walter Gotell |
Awards
- The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1966 in the categories "Best Actor in a Leading Role" (Richard Burton) and "Best Art Direction-Set Decoration" .
- In 1966 the film won a British Film Academy Award in four categories, including best British film .
- Oswald Morris received a “Best Cinematography Award” and Oskar Werner won a Golden Globe for best supporting actor.
- Richard Burton received a Golden Laurel in 1966 .
Trivia
Movie mistakes : During the filming work the microphone hitting Tonangel the actor Richard Burton accidentally on the head. This mistake is parodied in the film Kentucky Fried Movie .
In the opening scene, where Leamas is waiting for his agent (Karl Riemeck) at the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing , it is said that they can only be given fire protection on the run if “the Vopos are shooting in the West” - but in fact all of them were released after the Wall was built in 1961 GDR border crossings are no longer guarded by the local police, but by the passport control units of the State Security , who, however , wore soldiers' uniforms of the border troops to camouflage themselves.
literature
- John le Carré : the spy who came out of the cold. Roman (original title: "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"). German by Manfred von Conta . List, Munich 2003, 255 pp., ISBN 3-548-60359-9
Web links
- The Spy Who Came in from the cold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Spy Who Came in from the cold at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Spy Who Came Out of the Cold . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2012 (PDF; test number: 35 259 V).
- ↑ IMDb.com .
- ^ Filmlexikon and Spiegel.de .
- ↑ The spy who came in from the cold. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Stephan Eicke: The spy who came from the cold. In: film-Rezensions.de. January 13, 2013, accessed March 6, 2017 .
- ↑ German synchronous files